Parish Safeguarding Officer Resources

Parish Safeguarding Handbook & Safer Environment and Activities

The Parish Safeguarding Handbook is now out of date and has been replaced with the e-manual. Guidance on areas such as training previously provided by the Parish Safeguarding Handbook can be found  on the training and DBS section of this website. To ensure your PCC are meeting their safeguarding responsibilities as outlined in the House of Bishops Safeguarding Policy and Practice Guidance, we encourage parishes to sign up to the Parish Safeguarding Dashboard and hub. This dashboard helps ensure that parishes are meeting the governance requirements for safeguarding and the hub helps track compliance around safeguarding training and DBS compliance for staff and volunteers, along with  supporting recruitment processes such as the creation of job descriptions.

Guidance on safer working practice, called Safer Environment and Activities, which provides highly practical advice for parishes, helping them to run their day-to-day activities as safely as possible, was published in November 2019 and can also be found here.

Diocesan Guidance, forms and examples

On some occasions there is a need to support the national guidance with local guidance, e.g. to clarify local policy or respond to a parish query. The documents are stored at the bottom of this page.