Safeguarding Policy
The safeguarding policy can be accessed here.
Mandatory Training Requirements
The mandatory training requirements were published by the Diocese of Ely in their April 2023 Safeguarding Newsletter.
Clergy, LLMs, ALMs and Clergy with PTO
Basic Safeguarding Awareness
Safeguarding Foundations
Raising Awareness of Domestic Abuse
Safeguarding Leadership Pathway
Safer Recruitment & People Management
Parish Safeguarding Officers
Basic Safeguarding Awareness
Safeguarding Foundations
Raising Awareness of Domestic Abuse
Safeguarding Leadership Pathway
Safer Recruitment & People Management
Parish Safeguarding Officer Induction
Churchwardens
Basic Safeguarding Awareness
Safeguarding Foundations
Raising Awareness of Domestic Abuse
Leadership - if the parish is in vacancy.
Bespoke safeguarding briefing - offered as part of the Archdeacons Visitations.
PCC Members
Basic Safeguarding Awareness
Safeguarding Foundations
Raising Awareness of Domestic Abuse
Safer Recruitment - if involved in recruitment.
Leadership
Roles that play a leadership role in shaping the culture of the Parish Church just complete…
Basic Safeguarding Awareness
Safeguarding Foundations
Safeguarding Leadership Pathway
The Safeguarding Leadership Pathway focuses on leadership and cultural change. The Parish Church must assess the safeguarding training needs of their volunteers, elected officials and paid roles to decide if the requirement to attend the Leadership Pathway is met.
Volunteers
Volunteers who do not take on any of the above roles in addition to the role they are volunteering for, must complete…
Basic Safeguarding Awareness
Modern Slavery
Module available via NST and Clewer project. This training is advocated as good practice but is not a requirement.
Safeguarding Action Plan
We now have a safeguarding action plan that has been drawn up following our audit. Most of the actions will be carried out following the APCMs once the PCCs are in place for 2024/25. Revd Nigel will liaise with the churchwardens and Parish Safeguading Officers in terms of the next steps. For those with access to the action plan, you can view it be clicking the button below.
Visiting Bell Ringers
We are in the process of approving a Safeguarding Policy for visiting bell ringers for all of our churches. In the interim, the minimum requirements in order for a visiting team to ring in our churches is as follows...
All ringers must have completed the Basic Safeguarding training as a minimum.
For those running a tower, organising ringers for weddings and quarter peals etc, the Foundation Level is required.
For churches that have high visitor levels, the Leadership accreditation is required. However, this would not apply to our churches as we only tend to have visiting teams when the churches are not in use by other groups.
We maintain a list of people who ensure that all ringers in the visiting group meet the above. However, we will still ask you to confirm that the appropriate safeguarding is in place and the the Ely Safeguarding guidelines have been met.