Safe Spaces (Church) Information
Our Church is committed to modelling the love of Christ to all people we have contact with. We are committed to partnering with individuals, parents and families in providing meaningful, welcoming and fun experiences in high quality, safe environments. We want to ensure that when anyone (including children, young people and vulnerable adults) interacts with the ministries and activities of our Church that they feel safe – physically, emotionally and spiritually.
The NSW Government requires organisations to implement ten Child Safe Standards with respect to children and young people and we are committed to upholding these standards in our Church community. Every adult working with children or young people holds a valid Working with Children Check. We use strict screening procedures. We have a process for anyone (including children and young people) to be able to raise any concerns they may have, and for the Church to respond in a timely and appropriate manner, including reporting concerns to the relevant authorities if appropriate. We train our leaders and volunteers to understand their responsibilities, to ensure our Church is a safe place.
We encourage anyone with concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of a child or young person at our Church, or any other concerns about safety, to contact a member of the Safe Church Team. The Church will publish the names of our Safe Church Team members on our webpage and/or noticeboard.
We aim to:
- minimise the risk of abuse, ministry misconduct and the misuse of positional power within the church.
- ensure that all cases of suspected abuse and ministry misconduct are handled in a consistent, unbiased and thorough manner.
- ensure that leaders and programs are safe.
- that all people are respected and valued irrespective of their gender, age, country of origin, cultural heritage, scio-economic background or ability.
- provide a safe and healthy work environment for employees, voluntary workers and visitors and will endeavour to ensure that these people do nothing to place themselves or members of the public at risk of injury or illness.
The Procedures list provides maps setting out courses of action to be followed under certain circumstances.
The Policies & Forms list provides the required forms for Procedures and Policies which Deniliquin Baptist seeks to abide by.
The WHS link provides access to policies & forms relating to Work Health & Safety which Deniliquin Baptist Church seeks to abide by.
Procedures
Procedures listed provide information in relation to Safe Church issues.
(Click on the highlighted text to open the relevant file.)
- Procedure for Conflict Resolution (2024).
- Procedure for Staff & Volunteers (2024).
- Procedure for handling complaints against staff & volunteers (2024).
- Procedure for responding to child protection concerns (2024).
Policies & Forms
Listed here are documents relating to Deniliquin Baptist Church’s Safe Church initiatives.
Clicking on the highlighted text will open the relevant file.
WHS
For forms that support Safe Spaces and WHS, please click here.