Key Resources

Key Safeguarding Resources

Keeping Them Safe—Policy only (Policy only document)

Keeping them Safe (Full document including policy, procedures and additional material)

Safety Performance Review – Safeguarding -A self-audit tool that helps to assess your safeguarding performance against a basic minimum standard

Safer Recruiting Guide – Guidelines to assist with recruiting safe personnel (taken from Keeping them Safe 2019)

Privacy Policy Template for parishes.

Toolbox – an external website with resources designed to support ministry with children, youth and young adults. It includes policies, processes and forms based on the ‘Keeping Them Safe’ document

Support in Responding to Historic Abuse

Resources for Clergy, Chaplains, Ministry Unit staff, Diocesan staff, and Standing Committee

A Liturgy of Lament

On Thursday, 5 September 2024 at 7pm in the Transitional Cathedral, everyone was invited to attend a Liturgy of Lament in response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

Prayers for Use in Sunday Intercessions

Almighty God and Everlasting God,
You are the author of all mercies, and the God of all comfort.
We pray this week for those who have been abused within our churches and faith-based organisations across our nation.


Have compassion upon all who have suffered the injustice,
humiliation and pain of abuse – sexual, physical, emotional, spiritual and all other forms of sinful conduct.


In the midst of their distress, give them courage to speak. May your perfect love drive out fear and anxiety. In your mercy, create opportunities for these men, women and children to share their pain, reveal their struggles and expose the hurtful actions of others.


Give grace, sensitivity and wisdom to all who will minister to the victims and survivors of abuse. Strengthen those who have been abused and their carers with the certainty of your love for them. In all things, we ask that your name be glorified and that we – your people – do justice, love kindness and walk humbly before you.


We humbly plead these things in the name of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, the King of compassion,
Amen.


http://thebriefing.com.au/2012/11/prayers-for-those-suffering-abuse/

A Prayer for Survivors and Those who Abuse

God our redeemer and sustainer, we pray for the survivors of violence, abuse and neglect. Be with them in confusion and pain. Give your power to the powerless, your fullness to the empty of spirit.


Heal their wounds, free them from fear and restore them to true health. Strengthen them to face the future with faith in you. We ask this through Jesus your Son, who was himself a survivor of abuse and yet in his resurrection, triumphed over the oppression.


Likewise, God of justice, judge of all the earth, we bring before you those who abuse and mistreat others. Turn the hearts of the exploiters from the way of evil. Open their eyes to the truth of their conduct and fill them with hatred for the damage they do. And so by your Holy Spirit bring them to true repentance and amendment of their lives.


And now, may your Spirit draw us together, both in our church, and in the community. May we face our mistakes with complete honesty. But preserve us from unhelpful speculation and gossip. Help us reach out, care for the hurting, and support each other. Strengthen us with the gospel of your grace, for Jesus’ Christ’s sake. Amen.


http://thebriefing.com.au/2012/11/prayers-for-those-suffering-abuse/