Policy and Practice Guidance

National Church of England Safeguarding Handbook – available to download here 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 – available to download here 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)