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June 2024 SMR News
Welcome to the June Newsletter!
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- NEW Child Safe Standards - implementation resource for churches
- NSW Working with Children week
- Safe Ministry parish consultations
- Face to face training
- SMR Zoom 101 Workshops
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NEW resource
Child Safe Standards - implementation resource for churches
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The Safe Ministry team has developed the Child Safe Standards – implementation resource for churches. The resource is intended to support churches to implement the Child Safe Standards and includes examples of key strategies that can be used to implement each Standard.
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The resource is available on the Safe Ministry website here.
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What are the Child Safe Standards?
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The 10 Child Safe Standards are a principle-based framework to help organisations working with children to develop strategies and create a culture that keeps children safe and protects them from harm.
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What are the church's legal obligations?
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Did you know Anglican churches are required under the Children’s Guardian Act 2019 to demonstrate how they are implementing the Child Safe Standards?
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The Children's Guardian can take action to ensure organisations (including churches) comply with the Child Safe Standards. Whilst their approach focuses on capability building and support, this can include monitoring visits, conducting investigations, and issuing of compliance notices and penalties.
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I would be keen to hear your feedback about how your church is implementing the Child Safe Standards. Send me an email ros@safeministry.org.au
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NSW Working with Children Week: Celebrating and supporting the people who help keep our children safe.
NSW celebrates Working with Children Week in recognition of more than 1.9 million people who contribute to the lives of the state’s children in education, sports, arts and community organisations.
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Working with Children Week 2024 is 17–23 June.
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Take the opportunity to say Thank you during Working with Children Week to all the volunteers in our churches who give their time to lead in our children’s and youth ministries. It is also a great opportunity to highlight how they help to keep our children safe every week.
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Safe Ministry Consultations
Would you like to improve safe ministry practices in your church in 2024?
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Then participate in a Safe Ministry Parish Consultation.
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A Safe Ministry Parish consultation provides an opportunity to obtain feedback about your church’s safe ministry practices and receive recommendations for making improvements as part of your church’s continuous improvement process.
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Since 2022 under the NSW Child Safe Scheme churches are required to implement the 10 Child Safe Standards.
A Parish consultation can assist your church to:
- Highlight where your church is already meeting the Standards
- Bring to light gaps in implementation and develop a plan for continuous improvement
Additionally the consultation will review compliance with the Safe Ministry to Children Ordinance 2020.
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What’s involved?
+ Completing an online Child Safe Standards Self-Assessment tool
+ Meeting with the Parish Consultant and relevant staff in your church
+ Receive a Report which includes recommendations for improving Safe Ministry practices.
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Face to face training
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Registrations open 4-5 weeks prior to the event
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Course enrolments close 48hrs prior to the event
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Saturday 15 June 2024 Registrations now open
Safe Ministry Essentials | 9.00am – 3.00pm
Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Blaxland
Bomaderry Anglican Church, Bomaderry
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Safe Ministry Refresher | 9.00am – 12.30pm
Glenhaven Anglican Church, Glenhaven
Fairy Meadow Anglican Church, Fairy Meadow
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Soul Revival at MCC, Miranda
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Saturday 31 August 2024
Safe Ministry Essentials| 9.00am – 3.00pm
St Andrew’s House, Town Hall
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Safe Ministry Refresher | 9.00am – 12.30pm
St Andrew’s House, Town Hall
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Saturday 16 November 2024
Safe Ministry Essentials | 9.00am – 3.00pm
Narrabeen Anglican Church, Narrabeen
Minchinbury Anglican Church, Minchinbury
Sylvania Anglican Church, Sylvania
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Safe Ministry Refresher | 9.00am – 12.30pm
Shellharbour City Anglican Church, Shellharbour
Mittagong Anglican Church, Mittagong
Sadlier Anglican Church, Sadlier
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Please encourage those in your church who would benefit from face to face training to enrol, and be prepared to assist them if necessary with the technology.
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- Applicants for face to face training need to have an account on the Safe Ministry Training website, log in and enrol in the course.
- Once they complete the course, they will be emailed their certificate a day or so later, and a copy of their certificate details sent to you, their SMR.
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New and new-ish Safe Ministry Reps - Zoom Workshops
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The next SMR 101 Zoom workshops will happen in August 2024.
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If you are new (or new-ish) to the role of SMR, then invest an hour in this workshop and reap the benefits!
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No booking or rego required - just boot up your device at the right time and click the appropriate link below. Have your questions and a notebook ready!
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Two days/times - identical content.
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- Monday August 19th @ 10:30am - 11:30am
- Tuesday August 20th @ 07:30pm - 08:30pm
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SMR Facebook Group
A reminder that we have a private Facebook group just for SMR's
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- A safe and private place for SMR's to ask questions, support each other, share ideas or solutions to problems, etc
- The address is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/173114257798286
- Involvement in this group is entirely optional - but it is proving to be a useful extra channel for SMR's to chat amongst themselves and pose questions.
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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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That's it for this edition! Back soon with more info about what is happening in the Safe Ministry scene.
If you are no longer the SMR for your church, please unsubscribe using the link below and drop me an email to let me know.
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