people and children in safeguarding themselves and their friends, ensuring they

are aware of who within the church they can speak to about their concerns, and

that they know the church cares about their safety and wellbeing.

Please add these resources into your programmes.

The resources are free to download through the Church of England Safeguarding

portal and can be found by going to Resources - Training - Empowering Children

https://safeguardingtraining.cofeportal.org/

https://www.lincoln.anglican.org/parish-support/safeguarding/

Childline

https://www.childline.org.uk/

NSPCC

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/

Thirtyoneeight

https://thirtyoneeight.org/

"Safe? is for anyone working with teenagers, whether that’s professionally or in a voluntary role. It’s designed to help you recognise signs of various types of abuse or safeguarding risk by creating hypothetical situations and asking you to consider your response. As the fictional case study grows, you’ll have to decide whether or not this young person is a safeguarding concern, and how you’d respond.

It’s an ideal refresher for those who’ve already completed safeguarding training and need to remind themselves what to look out for, and it’s a great way to get teams discussing safeguarding issues without having to talk about sensitive cases. It is intended for teams or small groups of colleagues to use together. Of course real life is much more complicated but we hope that Safe? will help give you confidence in your practice, and help you to spot crucial signs and behaviours in your interactions with young people should they occur.

Safeguarding doesn’t end here and we recommend you make sure you and your teams are comfortable and confident with your current safeguarding policy and referral processes.

The resource has been developed in partnership with leading safeguarding agency, thirtyone:eight who have been providing training, consultancy and support for churches, charities and organisations for over 40 years, making them leading experts in safeguarding, working with government to inform legislation and promoting high standards in safeguarding practice."

·       Do you think the church cares about you and keeping you safe? Why / Why not? How can you tell?

·       Do you know who to talk to if you have any worries about yourself or someone else? Who can you talk to at school? At church? Do you know what these people look like?

·       Are there any posters in church that talk about where you can find help? Where are they?

·       Is there anything you’d like us, the Church, to do / talk about around helping you to stay safe? Looking out for your friends?