Appropriate conduct

As a worker you should:

• Follow your role/job description
• Maintain professional boundaries at all times
• Ensure that, whenever possible, there is more than one adult present during church activities
• Ensure your contact with children and protected adults is appropriate to your role and the church activity
• Create relationships with children, protected adults and other workers that are based on honesty, trust and respect
• Understand that children and protected adults are individuals with their own needs and rights
• Respect differences in gender, culture, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and religious beliefs
• Create an environment where children and protected adults feel able to share any concerns
• Complete a risk assessment before activities with children, young people, or protected adults are carried out to ensure that every reasonable step has been taken to protect participants from harm
• When unanticipated risks do occur, note on the risk assessment ensuring that any necessary action is taken to reduce or eliminate potential reoccurrence
• Inform a child or protected adult as soon as possible if you need to break confidentiality in order to follow child/adult protection procedures
• Where possible, involve children and protected adults in decisions
• Immediately report safeguarding concerns
• Attend the relevant safeguarding training within the timescale in the safeguarding training pathway
• Follow the safeguarding policies and procedures in the Safeguarding Handbook, which includes the social media guidelines and photography and video guidelines
• Receive and follow the safeguarding pocket card
• Have knowledge of and report unacceptable behaviour or poor practice as per the whistleblowing policy