Designed to offer a face-to-face experience for more people across your Districts at once, the Advanced Module split into 2, 2.5 hour sessions on 11th and 13th March 6.30-9pm. It is not 2.5 days long. This online course is for leaders in your church to do this training all together, but without needing to travel as far or take a whole day out of your diary in one go. Teaching will be offered over Zoom with space for conversations in your local context, and ways to interact with the trainers.

Training Aims

The Advanced Module will enable participants to consolidate and develop their previous safeguarding learning and:

Explore what this means in your designated role of responsibility within the Church
Further equip you with skills and resources to be confident in promoting good practice in the Church and community
Extend your understanding of responding well to different groups within the Church community.

How it works

We will offer the Advanced Module Training as a live stream. This includes:

All the teaching content, taught in-front of a live class, with breaks for discussion and coffee in your local venues
A way to interact with the training team live during question and answer sessions

Host churches will offer:

A warm, comfortable venue for 4.5hrs of training
A chaplain for attendees
A Circuit Safeguarding coordinator/officer for local questions and answers
An a way to show and interact with a live-stream, suitable for the size of your group. The solution you use depends on the size of the group: for a 5 or below, a TV with a laptop plugged in may suffice. A larger group may benefit from using a projector and PA system connected to a computer. Regardless, a reliable internet connection will be required throughout the event
A certificate to all participants andcreate a list for church, Circuit and District records.
Printed copies of the Participant resources available here at Methodist Publishing (https://www.methodistpublishing.org.uk/category/christian-books/safeguarding-1581), or as PDFs at https://www.methodist.org.uk/safeguarding/training/advanced-module-2023-edition-participants/advanced-module-2023-edition-materials/.

Essential Preparation Resources

Participants are required to complete Unit 1a: Preparing the Ground before attending the training on the day. This is normally provided by your venue host (the person asking you to attend), but can also bedownloaded from the Safeguarding Pages on the Methodist Church website; and obtained in print form at Methodist Publishing . You will only have to pay for postage and packing.

Materials

These materials are made available for general interest on the Methodist Church's website and will be provided during the e-learning component of the course. No-one should deliver this material without having had access to these additional notes.

The training should not be undertaken by anyone without agreement from the District Safeguarding Group.

Please note that these materials have been specifically designed for use in the Methodist Church. You are free to download and use them in your own church but please ensure that the Methodist Church source is acknowledged. This should read ©Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes 2011.

Who should attend this course?

Core List – Required Attendance

• safeguarding officer – District

• safeguarding officer – Circuit

• safeguarding officer - Church

• members of the District Safeguarding Group

• members of the District Policy Committee

• all presbyters or deacons with an active preaching or pastoral ministry (including supernumerary ministers)

• those who are in paid employment or a voluntary role which includes leadership within the Methodist Church, involving direct work with children, young people or vulnerable adults

• those with responsibility for supervision (either training or trained and accredited under the Methodist Church Reflective Supervision Policy 2021-26)

• lay persons who are appointed to exercise pastoral leadership within a local church

• local preachers should enroll and complete the Advanced Module at the earliest opportunity after receiving a Note to Preach and completing the Foundation Module. Both modules must be completed by the end of the second year of training and before their second interview on trial, whichever occurs first.

• worship leaders should enroll and complete the Advanced Module at the earliest opportunity after commencing training and completing the Foundation Module. Both modules must be complete by the end of the second year of training and before their appointment by the Church Council, whichever occurs first.

• those who deliver the Foundation Module

• evangelism/mission enablers

• circuit stewards

• members of the Connexional Complaint Panels, Discipline Committees, Pastoral and Appeals Committees

• those in recognised roles involving pioneering, fresh expressions or evangelism

• mentors for the Youth Participation Scheme

• members of the Safeguarding Committee

Warmly invited but not mandatory

• supernumerary ministers apart from those who have an active preaching or pastoral ministry.

Recognition of Church of England Training

The Methodist Church recognises the Church of England Leadership Module (previously called C2) as equivalent and qualifying training to the Advanced Module. Therefore, those who have undertaken that Church of England course will have satisfied attendance requirements listed above in the Methodist Church.

Renewing Training

The requirement to renew training every four years will only apply to the highest level of safeguarding training undertaken by an individual. Where the Foundation and Advanced Modules are required, following attendance at both courses, only a repeat of the Advanced Module will be necessary in future years.

These lists are as approved by the 2016 Methodist Conference: www.methodist.org.uk/downloads/conf-2016-34-Past-Cases-Review-Implementation.pdf

and updated by the 2017 January Methodist Council:

counc-mc17-13-the-2016-conference-resolutions-34-2-and-34-3-january-2017.pdf (methodist.org.uk)

The 2016 Conference decided that the frequency of undertaking Creating Safer Space training should change from five to four years from September 2017 in order to make sure that training content can keep pace with changes in legislation and safeguarding practices.

www.methodist.org.uk/downloads/conf-2016-30-Safeguarding.pdf

What are my transport options for getting to the event?

The Advanced Module is taught online and therefore no travel is necessary.

Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?

Feel free to get in touch, and one of our friendly team will get in touch with you.

Do you accept refunds?

This event is free, therefore we won't give refunds. We do, however ask that you make efforts to let us know if you cannot attend. This helps us with reducing wastage of resources and food.

The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?

To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, those booking here also need to agree to our holding your name, date of attendance and Circuit in a database. If you are booking on behalf of others, we suggest you let them know this, and offer them this privacy statement: https://www.methodist.org.uk/media/28947/2-training_privacy_notice.docx which summarises all the details. If you have any questions, please get in touch.

Creating Safer Space: Advanced Module (across 2 online sessions)