Guidance, advice and useful documents for parishes
Role of PSO
Inducting a new Parish Safeguarding Officer
Parish Safeguarding Responsibilities
Churchwarden Safeguarding Responsibilities
PCC members Safeguarding Responsibilities
Good Practice Guidance – Working with Adults
Good Practice Guidance - Working with Children
Safeguarding Recording Form
Guidance – Unaccompanied Children
Photography and filming in churches – privacy notice template
Media Consent Form – parish template
Church Building Hire Agreements - Safeguarding Considerations
Types of Abuse (link)
Resources for Parish Safeguarding
Parish Safeguarding Dashboards is an online tool which has been designed to make safeguarding administration and governance simpler for everyone. They display a clear and simple dashboard on a mobile phone, tablet or computer and cover all aspects of parish safeguarding, helping you to keep track of your parish progress and to ensure that no important area is missed.
This introductory video outlines how the safeguarding dashboard can help your parish.
The developers of Safeguarding Dashboards have a website that gives advice about:
• Getting started
• Frequently asked questions
Please contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Team if your parish has not yet signed up for a dashboard.
The Parish Safeguarding Dashboard enables the Diocesan Safeguarding Team to provide more effective support to Parishes and ensure that each parish is meeting the requirements regarding its safeguarding administration.
The Parish Safeguarding Hub for safer recruitment and people management in parishes. Safeguarding Hubs are making parishes safer by helping them to meet the Church of England's safeguarding requirements. They are fully integrated with Safeguarding Dashboards. The Church of England updated its Safer Recruitment and People Management Guidance in 2021 and includes mandatory requirements for parishes that came into force on 4 January 2022. For more information about how the Hub works, check out this short video. Access to the Hub is provided to Parish Safeguarding Officers and Incumbents, please contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Team if you want to find out more.