National Policies & Practice Guidance
This page holds parish resources temporarily while the Parish Safeguarding Toolkit is being developed.
General safeguarding templates
Key roles and responsibilities of church office holders and bodies, responding well to domestic abuse and theological texts.
Promoting a Safer Church
Safeguarding Standards
E manual containing all the safeguarding policies
Diocesan templates & resources
Pocket guide to Safeguarding in the Diocese
Social Media & Safeguarding
Training record template for parishes
Record Keeping
Supporting people who have been or are experienced abuse
Prayer Ministry factsheet
Model Parish Safeguarding Policy
Model Parish Recording Template
Key resources for Parish Safeguarding Officers (PSO)
For new PSOs please do get in touch with the safeguarding team and we will get in touch to welcome and support you in the role.
National Safeguarding team Information and welcome pack
Safeguarding Dashboards & Hubs
The Parish Safeguarding Dashboard is a great online tool, which uses the guidance from the Church of England to enable you to check what you have done and highlight what needs to be done, to ensure that your church is a safer place.
Safeguarding Hubs are helping parishes with safer recruitment and people management. Parishes can choose to use one, two or all three of these tools:
Role Creator
The Role Creator clarifies safeguarding requirements, and it can create Role Descriptions and Person
Specifications.
People Manager
The People Manager keeps track of who is doing what, and it automatically sends reminders when
something needs to be done. It monitors DBS checks, safeguarding training and supervision sessions.
Recruitment Tracker
The Recruitment Tracker oversees the safer recruitment of new volunteers and creates Volunteer
Agreements. Signed agreements are automatically archived for future reference.
You can work with others in the parish to complete the dashboard and hub and create an action plan to share with your PCC.
Resources to use to discuss safeguarding at PCC
Responding to victims and survivors – Resource to discuss at your PCC
Resources to support you to write risk assessments
Model Activity Risk Assessment Template
Diocese of Gloucester Safeguarding Risk Assessment Template
Resources to use to talk with children about safeguarding
Lesson plans .docx
Child Church form
Parent Church form
Child Cathedral form
Child Church choir form
Parent Cathedral form
Parent Church Choir form
Empowering children resources
