At a meeting of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) on 15th March 2018 it was agreed to adopt the House of Bishops’ Promoting a safer church safeguarding policy statement. Extract from the PCC Minutes. 
 
The full House of Bishops policy can be downloaded here or borrowed from the Parish Safeguarding Officer.

St Andrew’s Church, Rushmere Parish Safeguarding contacts:

  • Revd Alan Comfort (Incumbent) 01473 270976
  • Bob Batchelor (Parish Safeguarding Officer) 01473 713981
  • Hilary Platts (Assistant PSO) 01473 724456
  • Ruth Silburn (Churchwarden)

email safestandrewr@gmail.com

Diocesan contacts

Diocesan website cofesuffolk.org/concerns-and-contacts

Dispute Advisory Service

Dealing with conflict is a normal feature of building healthy relationships and congregations. The Dispute Advisory Service offers a safe place to bring conflicts and problems that might occur in a church setting. The service is for everyone, congregation members, commissioned and licensed ministers and clergy and it offers a confidential, independent professionally-supervised service that is overseen by a management group supported by the Diocese.  It is formally part of the anti-bullying and anti-harassment policy as approved by Diocesan Synod. To find out more please visit their website or download a poster (pdf).

Other sources of information and support