Latest News & Updates

Highly critical Safeguarding report on the Church of England and the Church in Wales

The Church of England failed to protect children from sexual abuse, and created a culture where abusers “could hide”, a report has concluded. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse’s […]

Safeguarding policy updates

Since the launch of the new Safeguarding website in August 2020, the policies are now available on webpages and all changes made to them are updated on the website.  You […]

Diocesan Support Teams meet online

On Tuesday 8th September, an online, all-island meeting of the Safeguarding Diocesan Support Teams took place.  A very packed agenda included updates from each diocese on things like training needs, […]

Supporting our children as schools re-start

By Peter Hamill and Robert Dunne. Starting school again in autumn is always a time of change, new teachers, new subjects, new routines, exams, perhaps a new school.  How much […]

Adult Safeguarding

Today some members of the adult safeguarding panels in the Republic of Ireland met online to do refresher training. All adults have a fundamental right to be respected, nurtured, cared […]