LEADERSHIP
This course will be a face-to-face training session which will be approximately 3 and 1/2 hours duration.
Example of roles that require this training:
Clergy
Chaplains
LLMs
Some ALMs
Churchwardens
PSOs
Church Leaders
Tower Captains
And more...
The national Safeguarding Learning and Development Framework sets out the vision for safeguarding learning to ensure that all Church officers develop skills and knowledge in safeguarding to an appropriate level.
As a Church we recognise the importance leaders play in creating and maintaining a safe environment for all, in whatever way they support the work of the Church. We are committed to enabling leaders to develop and maintain the necessary knowledge, attitude, behaviours and skills to safeguard and protect children, young people and vulnerable adults.
This pathway supports our Church vision. It is essential that we understand safeguarding as a theological imperative, rooted in the nature and love of God, and outworking in basic commitments to giving equal worth to all.
The Church has committed to developing a set of National Safeguarding Standards as part of a quality assurance framework. The quality assurance framework currently under development will be a mechanism for:
Asking and answering the question: How well are we doing this and what is the difference / outcome being achieved?
Analysing the answers to this question to gain learning and deepen organisational safeguarding understanding and expertise.
Using that learned expertise to drive systematic change and continuous improvement in both the quality and impact of the activity, and to increase our knowledge and understanding of the evolving nature of Church-based abuse.
