Safeguarding Handbook
The Safeguarding Handbook is available to download as a PDF.
The information contained within the Safeguarding Handbook may not be the most current information available. If you have any queries then please contact the safeguarding team.
Contents
- Introduction
- House of Bishops Safeguarding principles
- Preamble
- Principles
- Diocesan policies and responsibilities
- Diocese of Oxford safeguarding policy
- Diocesan Policy on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders
- Duties of the Diocesan Bishop and Diocesan synod
- Diocesan steering groups for children and for vulnerable adults
- Parish safeguarding responsibilities
- Definition of a child
- Definition of parent
- Definition of a vulnerable adult
- Parish safeguarding roles
- Safer recruitment
- Positions of trust
- Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) Disclosures
- Supervision, accountability and training
- Insurance
- Record keeping in recruitment
- Health and Safety
- Risk assessments
- Transport
- Information sharing, confidentiality and consent
- Complaints and whistle blowing
- Trustees of children’s charities
- Hire of church premises
- Equal opportunities
- Press enquiries
- Monitoring by Archdeacons
- Activities specifically with children and young people
- Good practice guide
- Good behaviour guide for children
- Leadership and staffing
- Staffing ratios
- Helpers aged under 18
- Work experience and community service
- Record keeping in children’s activities
- Parental consents
- Consents by children
- Holidays and residential trips
- Sleepovers on church premises
- OFSTED registration
- Cell groups or home groups
- Affiliated youth groups
- Mixed age activities
- Bellringing
- Organ lessons in church
- Unaccompanied children
- Special needs
- Drug and alcohol policies
- Electronic communications
- Making and distributing images of children
- Disruptive children
- Child abuse and neglect
- Reporting concerns about children
- Children in need but not at risk
- Activities with vulnerable adults
- Good practice guide
- Leadership and staffing
- Premises
- Records
- Inclusion
- Consent
- Making and distributing images of vulnerable adults
- Home visits
- Visiting people living in institutions
- Street angels and street pastors
- Lunch clubs
- Holidays and residential trips
- Handling money for vulnerable adults
- Adult abuse and neglect
- Reporting concerns about vulnerable adults
- Challenging behaviour
- Perpetrators of abuse who are also vulnerable
- Domestic abuse
- Background
- Signs and indicators
- Responding to concerns
- Dignity at work and harassment
- Background
- Responding to concerns
- Survivors and historic abuse
- Authorized listeners
- Offenders and those who might present a risk to children or vulnerable adults
- Background
- Written agreements
- Allegations against church workers
- Acknowledgements