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== Glen Waverley Uniting Church ==
Safe Church Implementation Plan

||Item||Description||Date||Who||
||Adopt Safe Church Policies||Adopt policies (Chapter 2.3 of Serving Safely Policy)||March 24||ChurchCouncil||
||Inform Congregation of Safe Church Policies||Weekly Bulletin for a month<<BR>>Noticeboard<<BR>>Next monthly bulletin<<BR>>Notices on Sunday services||Begin week of March 23||NeilSkilton||
||Make Safe Church brochures available to Congregation||Wiki<<BR>>Handouts from office|<<BR>>Email in weekly bulletin||Begin week of March 23||NeilSkilton||
||Include Safe Church Policy in CC meetings||Include Safe Church Policy as a regular agenda item for Church Council||Next 6 months||ChurchCouncil||
||Appoint Safe Church Contact Person/s & Administration Person||As per position descriptions in Serving Safely Policy||ASAP||ChurchCouncil||
||Once appointed, inform Culture of Safety Unit||See SynodSafeChurchEducator||TBC||ChurchCouncil PeopleAndCultureCommittee||
||Once appointed, communicate role to Congregation||Clearly communicate the role to the entire church Congregation, via:<<BR>>Weekly Bulletin for a month<<BR>>Noticeboard<<BR>>Next monthly bulletin||TBC||ChurchCouncil / NeilSkilton||
||Distribute draft Serving Safely Policy to all Church leaders for review||ChurchCouncil<<BR>>Missional Group leaders<<BR>>MinistryTeam<<BR>>CommunicationsCommittee <<BR>>Property Team<<BR>>Supervisor (GavinBlakemore)<<BR>>Culture of Safety Unit||March 24||NeilSkilton||
||Collate & revise, send out revision of draft to stakeholders||Collate revision suggestions from all stakeholders; ensure all ministries are accurately represented in Policy document within Safe Church parameters.||March 31||NeilSkilton||
||Submit to Church Council||Submit revised version to April Church Council meeting for approval|| April 28||NeilSkilton||
||Leadership awareness & support||All current leaders to be made aware and asked to sign||After April 28||ChurchCouncil||
||Present to next Congregational Meeting||Explain the process & core changes, volunteer any initial feedback and possibly organise a public review session if necessary||After April 28||ChurchCouncil?||
||Audit||Audit implementation and identify any gaps||December 2015||ChurchCouncil||

Presented to ChurchCouncil by NeilSkilton in CouncilMinutes20150324