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October 2020 News
Welcome to the October 2020 SMR news - especially if it's your first as Safe Ministry Rep.
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This is very brief update to draw your attention to an urgent situation with WWCC renewals
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WWCC Renewals - COVID extension ends
In late March the OCG (Office of the Children's Guardian) automatically extended by 6 months the WWCC expiry date for all those expiring from late March to late September. This was to assist during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic
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That period has now ended - on September 26th - which means that all those people who were automatically granted the extension now need to renew their WWCC urgently (unless they already done so recently).
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This is likely to catch quite a lot of people off guard, so I would urge you to run a report on your Safe Ministry Records and check who now has expired WWCC numbers, and then contact them to remind them to renew ASAP
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It is very important that those people stand down from any children's ministry until they renew their WWCC. Failure to do that puts them and your church at risk of a substantial fine (>$5,000)
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You can read the OCG news article to confirm the end of the automatic extension.
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You might also remind people that the OCG now also requires them to bring 100 points of ID when they renew their WWCC at a Sefrvices NSW office.
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Frontline episode 6 is now out!
We cover the following in this ep:
- Hints and Tips We look at a few of the most common questions that are asked around the Safe Ministry to Children Ordinance 2020
- Answer the question: ‘Is the gold medal still available?”
What’s that all about? Listen to the interview with Archdeacon Anthony Douglas, who in a previous life as rector of the parish of Shoalhaven guided that church to a claim for gold in the Safe Ministry Check marathon! How did he do it? Listen to find out…
- Bible Spot: James 1:1-14
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Keeping up to date with news
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An archive of all SMR Newsletters (since we moved to our new system) is available here.
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Twitter
Likewise, alerts for new content are posted to our Twitter account, and you can find that account and follow us to get those alerts here:
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That's it for this edition.
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