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Safety team report to Council May 2017
Presentation by Presbytery on prevention of child abuse
Both DavidMorgan & DorothyLockhart attended the Presbytery session on prevention of child abuse laws and rules since the Jan 2017 legislative changes.
The presentation is available here
- The immediate steps to be done, and comments on our progress are:
How to achieve congregational compliance with the policy |
GWUC Comment |
1. Formally adopt or reaffirm the Synod’s KCS Policy and procedures, and record a statement of commitment in CC meeting Minutes. |
Adopted our GwucServingSafelyPolicy in July 2015. Need to add the new KCS policy and update as needed. |
2. Advertising KCS Policy Make the KCS Policy and Statement of Commitment accessible to the congregation. |
Done. Could do more. |
3. Appoint a Culture of Safety/Safe Church Contact Person |
Done. DorothyLockhart with DavidMorgan as deputy. |
4. Their role is to assist in undertaking leadership in child safe church, to support all parties in responding to reports or concerns as well as assisting with required administrative components. |
Understood. |
5. WorkingWithChildrenCheck Ensure that Church Councilors, Elders, Lay Preachers, worship leaders, music leaders, organists, Bible study leaders, as well as those involved in programs with children and young people have a valid WWCC and have signed the Code of Conduct. |
WWCC in hand. We have not required signing of a Code. |
6. To keep an up to date WWCC register locally as well as enter the informaBon on the Synod’s WWCC secure data base. |
Being done by ChurchOffice and DavidMorgan, with the intention of returning to the ChurchOffice when load reduces. Local list derived from database. |
7. Report immediately a Negative Notice is received (ie. a failure to obtain or cancellation / suspension of WWCC) by contacting The Synod General Secretary who will advise on the appropriate action in accordance with UCA Guidelines |
Understood |
8. Safe Church Training. Ensure that all people requiring WWCC attend Safe Church Training at least every 2 years (records of this need to be kept.) |
We have records in the rolls database, extracted here, but we are out of date. Waiting for new Safe Church Training course. |