Safeguarding Leadership (Session 1 – 6th March & Session 2 – 20th March 2027, 9:30am – 12noon via Zoom)

Pre-requisite: Basic Awareness and Foundations

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand how safeguarding concerns and abuse can be prevented within their context.
• Understand how healthy culture, and safe and effective leadership, shape Christian communities that are healthy, safe, and have the capacity to deliver high quality safeguarding practices.
• Recognise when risk assessment and management processes are required, understanding when, why and how they must be utilised.
• Understand more of the impact that abuse and trauma have on individuals’ lives, relationships, and interactions in a community setting, leading to better responses to victims and survivors.
• Evaluate their learning and translate this into an individual plan of action that will improve their safeguarding practice and responses.

Required Attendees:

This pathway is designed for those people who play a lead role in shaping the culture of the Church body concerned. This will include:

• All clergy holding the bishop’s licence, commission, authorisation, or permission (including PtO where exemption has not been given) including Honorary/Assistant Bishops and Chaplains.

• All Readers and Licensed Lay Ministers holding the bishop’s licence (under Canons E6 & E8), together with all others who hold the bishop’s commission, authorisation, or permission to carry out similar ministerial functions (including PtO where exemption has not been given).

(Ordinands need to have completed the Leadership Pathway before their diaconal ordination and lay ministers in training before they are licenced, authorised or commissioned.)

• Non-executive members of Chapter.
• Safeguarding Officers / Leads in all Church bodies.
• Lay Ministry Staff Employed by a PCC or BMO.
• Locally appointed leaders of new worshipping communities.
• Churchwardens.
• Tower Captains at prominent towers (including Cathedrals, towers with frequent visitors or people learning) and the district chair / district safeguarding lead of bell ringing guilds/councils.

Participant Workbooks

• Workbooks are emailed to all delegates 3 weeks before the course.

They outline the full Leadership pathway and include instructions for the preparation tasks and the post-course evaluation tasks that are mandatory requirements of the pathway.

Preparatory Work

• In‑person courses:

Delegates must complete and submit preparation tasks for both Session 1 and Session 2 one week before attending the training day.

• Zoom courses:

Delegates must complete and submit Session 1 preparation tasks one week before the first online session. Then submit Session 2 preparation tasks one week before the second online session.

Evaluation Tasks

• Evaluation and Action Plans must be completed within 6 weeks of your training course.
• Once your submission is assessed and marked as complete, your certificate will be issued.