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November 2024 SMR News
Welcome to the November Newsletter!
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- New resource - A Guide for Child Safety Poster
- Safe Ministry parish consultations
- Face to face training
- Zoom 101 SMR Workshops - December
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NEW RESOURCE
A Guide for Child Safety - poster resource
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The Safe Ministry Office has developed a poster for churches to use to help meet Standard 2: Children participate in decisions affecting them and are taken seriously
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The poster helps to inform children and youth about what makes a church a safe place and who to speak to if they are feeling unsafe.
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Two versions are available:
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- Version 1 is generic.
- Version 2 can be edited to add the name of the church which personalises the poster to the parish.
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The posters are designed to be placed in locations where children and youth frequent such as areas where children’s and youth programs are run, bathrooms or hallways.
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Safe Ministry Consultations
Would you like to improve safe ministry practices in your church in 2025?
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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 (English) - 2025 Dates
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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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Listed below are the dates for face-to-face training events to be held in 2025.
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More details available soon.
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Saturday 22 February 2025
Saturday 29 March 2025
Saturday 14 June 2025
Saturday 30 August 2025
Saturday 15 November 2025
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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 December 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 December 2nd @ 10:30am - 11:30am
- Tuesday December 3rd @ 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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