A brief summary of actions not covered in previous drop-ins can be read below:
- Please encourage completion of the audit questionnaire as widely as possible by 2330 tomorrow. People can complete as many of the questionnaires as apply to each person. For example, a parish administrator who attends worship at St Paul’s Cathedral could complete the survey for Parish Workforce and Cathedral Worshipping Community
- Past reports, recommendations and themes can be accessed via this Church of England webpage.
- Where a parish has several websites its important to have a link to the safeguarding webpages clearly visible from as high up the page as possible, from each website.
- There was some conversation about parish email accounts. Safeguarding accounts should where possible be through the parish and centrally administered. Confidential information should not be sent to personal email accounts.
- Guidance on DBS checks is available on the DBS pages of the safeguarding website. Some training for recruiters on DBS criteria will be arranged for the autumn.
- Guidance on safeguarding training is available on the Training pages of the safeguarding website.
General Updates:
Online learning pathways – translation into other languages
People regularly request the online learning pathways to be translated into languages other than English. The NSY generally recommend that people use google translate tools (available via the browser) to translate text on screen. It works well and if used in combination with the English versions of the click through style courses then participants will have audio in English and the full script on screen translated into whatever language they choose. These tools will translate the entire site, all courses, library entries etc.
The ‘How to Guide’ on the portal for this can be found here:
New resource: NSPCC online safety videos
The NSPCC has published a series of expert insight videos on online safety. The series includes some ‘talking head’ contributions from a range of practitioners and children.
The films aim to help those working and volunteering with children to explore what online safety means, recognise the risks children face, and understand how to support children’s safety online.
You can check out the videos on the NSPCC Learning website.