COMMENT / Throughout the year churches across the country open their doors to people of all ages, for services, weekday clubs and vital community projects.

The Church of England is investing in a ground-breaking programme of safeguarding training and resources, created especially for children and young people.

General Synod has voted to approve the Safeguarding and Learning Development Framework as a Code of Practice which sets out details of the Church’s safeguarding learning pathways, for the next three years.

Steve Reeves has been appointed as the third member of the Church of England’s Independent Safeguarding Board, ISB. 

Update from National Safeguarding Steering Group, NSSG, January meeting 

The meeting began with an announcement by the chair, the Church’s lead safeguarding bishop, Jonathan Gibbs, that the contract for Zena Marshall, as interim national safeguarding director, has been extended to April 2022.

Summary of July meeting of National Safeguarding Steering Group 

Meeting of National Safeguarding Steering Group, NSSG, March 2023

Publication of diocesan safeguarding data 2019-21

Update from September National Safeguarding Steering Group