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