Proactive Approach
Safeguarding is about the prevention of harm and early intervention to minimise the opportunity of harm.
Safeguarding is a proactive preventative approach to child, young person or vulnerable adult protection.
Safeguarding includes:
- Creating a culture where safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults is everyone’s responsibility
- Regular Safeguarding training
- Child, youth and vulnerable adult centred practise
- Safer Recruitment procedures
- Codes of Conduct for everyone
Reactive Approach
Child, young person or vulnerable adult protection is a reactive approach.
It is part of a safeguarding process but prescribes the action to follow when a child, young person or vulnerable adult is identified as suffering from, or likely to suffer from serious harm. This may include suspected abuse and/ or neglect or a disclosure or a complaint.
Protection includes:
- A Protection Policy
- Procedures and guidelines which everyone in the parish knows and uses, including reporting abuse and supporting all those involved in this process.
Resources
We seek to ensure we have safe parishes and ministry units.
We have resources, policies, and procedures to assist with this.
Please see our key resources for safeguarding.