Vulnerable Adults.

As a church we acknowledge our responsibility to be welcoming, to be inclusive and to protect vulnerable adults. we have adopted a policy on this issue which is drawn to the attention of the Church and formally agreed at our Annual General Meeting. In our training eveni we rely on the material available from the Baptist Union entitle Safe to Belong and have issued those in positions of authority and responsibility with “Guidelines on work with Vulnerable Adults in the local church.”  

We have also adopted the following Action Plan to help check out progress. This policy is not something we can tick & claim to have done! It is an ongoing and developing fundamental approach to the perpetual question “How do we “do” church?”.

 

Issue

What are we going to do

Target date to achieve this

Person or persons responsible

A policy on the protection of Vulnerable adults is adopted by the Annual Church Meeting.

 

Done in 2007 and in 2008

John Southam as Church Manager

A person is appointed to monitor and review progress in implementing the policy. This person will report to the AGM

JS and Di Blackler were asked to do this.

 

 

John Southam as Church Manager

As an inclusive community of God’s people we will welcome vulnerable adults and involve them in the life of the church.

 

 

 

 

We will encourage vulnerable adults to identify the gifts that God has given them and encourage them to develop these gifts in the life of the church for our mutual benefit.

 

 

 

 

We will ensure that the environment of the church is safe and secure for all people

 

 

 

 

To implement the final three requires church members to be a part of the planning and part of the solution. Any ideas you have in the area of work in which you are involved should be shared with others in order that we are indeed welcoming, inclusive and protecting those vulnerable adults within the church family.