Safeguarding Officers

At St Barnabas, our Safeguarding Officers are :

The Churchwardens, their details can be found here

Useful Links

• If you are a child and you need to talk to someone about things that are happening to you that you don’t like, please click on the link below which takes you the Childline website, or telephone Childline on 0800 1111   https://www.childline.org.uk/

• If you are an adult and you need to access support about something that is happening to you, please click on the link below to find out how you can do that. Scroll down to find links to various support organisations for you to contact.  https://safeguarding.chichester.anglican.org/Ihavebeenabused/

• If you need to contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Team, please click on https://safeguarding.chichester.anglican.org/contacttheteam/

• If you need to report a safeguarding concern to the statutory authorities in Sussex, please click on the link below click on the option on the left that most describes the situation you are concerned about, and follow the advice and further links you find there. Please remember to contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Team as well once you have contacted the statutory authorities. https://safeguarding.chichester.anglican.org/whatdoidoif/

Safeguarding

Simple Quality Protects (SQP) is a tool introduced across the Diocese of Chichester, to be used by St Barnabas to assess how well we’re doing with our safeguarding practice and provision, to improve, and to demonstrate that improvement. It provides a set of easily-understood standards, arranged around four Themes. It also provides the guidance and resources to help St Barnabas meet those standards. The four Themes around which our SQP programme is structured are as follows:

Safe Activities: Ensuring that our basic day-to-day activities in the church are safe. This Theme covers things like first-aid-kits and risk-assessment for activities. It is the most 'practical' of the themes.

Safe Practice: This Theme focuses on ensuring that St Barnabas operates as safely as possible in our interaction with children and adults. It covers things like codes of behaviour, and how to respond to concerns.

Safe Structures: This Theme looks at the policies adopted by the St Barnabas PCC, and also at how the incumbent and PCC monitor compliance with those policies. This Theme is primarily about the governance of the parish, and how that supports good safeguarding.

Safe People: This theme focuses on safer recruitment - making sure that the people who work or volunteer in our churches with children and adults are suitable people to do so. It covers DBS checks, and also references, induction, training, and the like.