Policy and Practice Guidance

National Church of England Safeguarding Handbook with Leicester specific appendix – available to download here

Promoting a Safer Church - The National Parish Safeguading Handbook and futher details are availble here

Policy Statements

• Promoting a Safer Church; House of Bishops policy statement (2017)

Practice Guidance

• Safer Environment and Activities

• Code of Safer Working Practice

• Responding to Safeguarding Concerns or Allegations that Relate to Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adult Practice Guidance 2018

• Zoom Instruction and Risk Assessment Guidance

• Guidance Identifying and Reporting Safeguarding and Serious Incidents to the Charity Commission: Guidance for DBF's, PCC's and Religious Communities (August 2019)

• Training and Development Practice Guidance (2019)

• Glossary reference document (2017)

• Key roles and responsibilities of church office holders and bodies practice guidance (2017)

• Responding to, assessing and managing concerns or allegations against church officers practice guidance (2017)

• Responding well to domestic abuse practice guidance (2017)

• Training and development practice guidance (2017)

• Safer recruitment practice guidance (2016)

• Responding well to those who have been sexually abused practice guidance (2011)

• Safeguarding in religious communities practice guidance (2015)

• Templates and resources from the national Church of England 

• National Church of England Safeguarding handbook with Leicester specific appendix - available to download here

For templates and resources relating to safeguarding policy and practice guidance, please see here.

Joint Practice Guidance with The Methodist Church

• Safeguarding records: joint practice guidance for the Church of England and the Methodist Church (2015)

• Safeguarding joint practice guidance for single congregation Local Ecumenical Partnerships (2015)