Safeguarding

Immediate training is currently being delivered in Cheshire, Wirral and Liverpool areas, see description of courses and details on how to book your place here.

The URC is committed to providing a standardised training programme to ensure that all individuals working with children, young people and adults at risk understand the processes and policies of the URC.

As a minimum please complete Foundation e-learning individually or in small facilitated groups (just access as a guest).

The S2 URC Training Framework outlines who/which roles requires what level of mandatory training

Good Practice 6 constitutes the URC’s only policy and guidance document throughout the denomination. It contains information to assist you in your day to day safeguarding. All the Appendices - forms, templates, Codes of Conduct and model documents are available via the URC website.

To have the most up to date church safeguarding policy, here is form P1 (GP6): Church Safeguarding Policy

Also available is form P2, a template Safeguarding Policy statement

Also find attached the latest Mersey Synod Safeguarding Policy

Safer recruitment is a framework which uses a range of measures designed to both deter and prevent unsuitable individuals from working (either paid or unpaid) with children and/or adults at risk. A DBS check is only one part of a safer recruitment process that helps to prevent unsuitable or dangerous individuals gaining access to children, young people and adults at risk. For further information see section 2.4 of Good Practice 6.

Document S3 explains roles eligible for a DBS and will help to establish which role and what level of DBS check is required.

Download the URC Safeguarding Incident Report form