The Safeguarding Committee is responsible for:
- Developing a three-year child safeguarding plan, including the establishment of the local safeguarding policy and procedures
- Coordinating Local Safeguarding Representatives (LSRs)
- Coordinating activities related to child safeguarding, e.g. training
- Ensuring the annual audit, including the correlation of records for training-related activities
- Ensuring the completion of training needs assessments across the various child safeguarding roles in the Church body
- Ensuring, with the Church Authority, that the appropriate child safeguarding personnel are in place
- Upholding the seven standards in practice and behaviour