Keeping Safe
The care and protection of those in our community involved in church activities, of all ages, is the responsibility of the whole Church. Everyone who participates in the life of the Church has a role to play in promoting a Safer Church for all. This page summarises the principles of safeguarding at St Andrew's Church, West Deeping.
Most of the time at church we are like a big happy family. However even in very happy families, people can have a bad day and even people we know and trust can upset us. We want to help everyone have good days all of the time. We try to make sure that people who have jobs in the church always behave well and in a way that is helpful to you. We never want anyone or anything in church to frighten you, confuse you or worry you. It is important that you tell us if something is upsetting you or if you are feeling worried about something that’s happening or something somebody is doing. We have specially trained people who you can talk to and who you can ask for help. These people are good at safeguarding. This means they look after everyone’s safety. Caring for people is a very important part of our Christian life.
If you would like to talk to someone, Rector Fr Aran Beesley is always available at fraranbeesley@gmail.com or on 07590 055905.
To improve the efficiency of responses to safeguarding and DBS enquiries, thirtyone:eight will be working in partnership with us. Please contact them in the first instance for all safeguarding enquiries or to report a safeguarding concern: 0303 003 11 11 (select option 2). Thirtyone:eight are an independent Christian charity who will be supporting the Diocesan Safeguarding Team to protect vulnerable people from abuse in the Diocese of Lincoln.
For general enquiries please contact the team secretary, Kate, at safeguarding.admin@lincoln.anglican.org or 01522 504068
The statement of safeguarding principles and points of contact for St Andrew's Church, West Deeping are in the attachments below.