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An all-age, living-faith Christian community - English speaking - between Marbella and Gibraltar Christ's love underpins this church and we guarantee to welcome you wherever you are on your journey The Church of England's Diocese in Europe WORKING with the UK Methodist church |
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Sunday 17th February San Pedro 10am Anglican Holy Communion followed by optional lunch Sotogrande Midday Methodist Worship ICE Songs of Praise 5pm |
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Safeguarding Checks and Training
The Chaplaincy takes safeguarding of all people seriously. We must be a church where anyone can walk in and know that they will not be harmed, abused, bullied or exploited. (What kind of 'abuse' we are talking about is described in the diocesan policy here). We require a variety of on-line training, face-to-face training and criminal record checks on all those who hold responsible positions in the church who may consequently come into contact with vulnerable adults or young people. The Diocese has a policy on Safeguarding which we follow, and we have our own policy too. Our policy can be found here and the Diocesan policy and resources can be found here. There are two elements to ensuring those who have particular responsibilities are 'safe'. These elements are
HOW TO DO IT
CRIMINAL RECORD CHECKS
If you have lived in any country for more than 6 months (even as six one-month blocks) since you were 16, you need to attempt to get a police check from that country. This is not always easy as some countries do not have the facility to do the police check and others (e.g. the USA) require extra things such as fingerprints. Each country has two elements:
TRAINING STAGES
SO WHO NEEDS WHAT?
If you are not sure, there are two questionnaires, one on this page here, and one on the following page, which will help you decide what kind of check, if any, you need. |
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![]() Types of abuse covered by the policies: Physical Abuse � Sexual abuse � Emotional abuse (eg bullying or other undue pressure which may or may not be linked to other forms of abuse) � Neglect � Financial abuse � Discriminatory abuse � Organisational abuse � Modern Slavery � Domestic Violence and abuse � Self-Neglect � Spiritual abuse |
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