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Who Should Undertake Safeguarding Training?

All Parish/Benefice Child Protection or Vulnerable Adult Representatives should attend basic training and should seek to update that training approximately every 3 years.

All those who work with children or young people in a church context should try to attend safeguarding training with the Diocese of Hereford. Although many may feel that they have undertaken safeguarding in their workplace the diocesan training deals with safeguarding issues within the context of church life.

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Safeguarding Training 2013

There will be 2 central Basic Safeguarding (Children and Vulnerable Adults) Training sessions in 2013 as follows:

Tuesday 5th March 2013 in The Diocesan Office, Ludlow Eco Park and,

Thursday 25th April 2013 in the Diocesan Office, the Palace, Hereford.

Both Sessions run from 7pm to 9.30pm.

In addition Deaneries, Benefices or Parishes are invited to contact Barbara Gratton or Esther Gregory to request training sessions to meet their needs. Basic training as above can be delivered to your Deanery or Benefice on a date and at a venue chosen by the Deanery/ Benefice. We can also deliver other training sessions as below:

• Safer recruitment - a session to consider how to create a safer environment by taking care with our recruitment to both paid and volunteer roles in the Church
• Workshops for those working with groups of children or young people - contents of these can be varied to meet your needs but might include issues of Appropriate Discipline, How to keep yourself safe as a leader of young people, Information on policies and health and safety issues, Diversity issues etc.
• It is also hoped to hold one central training session on "Keeping young people safe from cyber abuse" (to be run by an outside agency. Please indicate if you are interested in this by contacting b.gratton@hereford.anglican.org
• A training session on supervising known offenders in a congregation.

To enquire about any of the above training please :contact

Barbara Gratton at b.gratton@hereford.anglican.org or 01989 730381 or 07760 228962