Safeguarding
BISHOP PATRICK WRITES TO OUR VOLUNTEERS:
‘I would like to thank you for your time and commitment to volunteering in your parish. Over the years your work has made a most valuable contribution to the smooth running of your parish. As part of our safeguarding practice, we are required to follow the safer recruitment process and keep basic details of all volunteers in the Diocese’.
Please see the letter from Bishop Patrick. Click to read
To enable the diocese to collect these details, ALL VOLUNTEERS, whatever your role, are required to complete a ‘Volunteer Registration’ form and return it to their Parish Safeguarding Rep (PSR), details are on the form.
Please complete the relevant form for Buxton or Chapel.
Click for Chapel-en-le-Frith form
Click for Buxton form
If you have any questions, please see your PSR - Sue (Chapel) or Margaret (Buxton).
Bishop Patrick Safeguarding Letter (167kb)
Registration form for active non DBS volunteers Chapel-en-le-Frith (227kb)
Registration form for active non DBS volunteers Buxton (207kb)
The Diocese of Nottingham is committed to promoting a healthy, compassionate, and safe culture in order to encourage disclosures and support victims and survivors of abuse.
Getting safeguarding right is about more than following procedures, it is also about how they are implemented and how people are treated and related to.
Safeguarding contacts:
Buxton: St Anne's
Margaret Swift:
Margaret.SwiftPSR@dioceseofnottingham.uk
Tel: 07513 725529
Chapel-en-le-Frith: St John Fisher and St Thomas More
Sue Thornhill:
Susan.ThornhillPSR@dioceseofnottingham.uk
Tel: 07513 725269