This online training, delivered via Zoom, will serve either as a basic starting point or as a refresher course.

Whatever your role within the Church, it will help you understand safeguarding in the Methodist Church and our collective responsibility for creating safer spaces for all.

The Creating Safer Space Foundation Module 2024 online training will help you:

- appreciate how safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and fundamental to the culture of a flourishing Church

- have a better understanding of good safeguarding practice within the Methodist Church, and understand its unique position in creating a safe space for all

- promote awareness and extend an inclusive welcome to those who have experienced abuse

- recognise, respond, record and refer relevant concerns about the safety and welfare of a child or adult, and recognise blocks to good practice

- learn from evidence from the Methodist Past Cases Review and note the current national context.

The training's overall aim is to increase safeguarding awareness, so the Church can exercise its duty of care to all: its members, office-holders and anyone who comes through its doors. We create a safer Church by developing your understanding of, and confidence in, our safeguarding processes and your individual place within these processes.

The course is supported by a handbook, which contains information covered in the course and additional information to support you in your role within the Methodist Church.

Look after yourself

Safeguarding, and the issues involved in safeguarding affect many of us in different ways. Sometimes, safeguarding training can be difficult as it brings up difficult memories or touches on something happening in your life.

These sessions can be difficult for any of us, at any time. It is important that you look after yourself. If there is something you are worried about before the course, please talk with one of the trainers who will be able to discuss with you the best way forward and talk about support that can be offered.

Privacy notice

By taking part in the foundation course your relevant personal information will be held by the circuit. To find out more about how your information is processed and your Data Protection rights please click here:

https://www.methodist.org.uk/safeguarding/training/safeguarding-training-participants-privacy-notice/

New Foundation Module 2024 Online Thursday June 5th 2025