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August 2024 SMR News
Welcome to the August Newsletter!
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- Child Protection Week 2024
- Safe Ministry parish consultations
- Face to face training
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National Child Protection Week 2024
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Child Protection week in 2024 is from 1-7 September.
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The themes this year are ‘Every child in every community needs a fair go’ and ‘Every conversation matters’.
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So this National Child Protection Week we invite you to speak up – and speak together – about what keeps kids safe.
Take the opportunity to have conversations in your church about keeping children and young people safe and well.
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You could start by taking some time to:
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1. ask the children and youth for ideas on how to improve the safety of church for all children and youth
2. invite parents/carers to have input into the child safe practices of the church
3. meet with staff, Parish Council and/or leaders to discuss and agree on changes to improve child safety.
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Check out the website for more information on activities planned by NAPCAN.
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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 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
Sadleir Anglican Church, Sadleir
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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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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.
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