Safeguarding Roles within Diocesan & Statutory Services: Safeguarding committee

Safeguarding committee

To promote child safeguarding by:

• Developing a three-year child safeguarding plan, including the establishment of the local child safeguarding policy and procedures
• Coordinating local safeguarding representatives (LSR’s)
• 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 Diocese/Church body
• Ensuring, with the Church authority, that the appropriate child safeguarding personnel are in place
• Upholding the seven standards in practice and behaviour

Roles Document

Safeguarding Roles

• Bishop

• Director of safeguarding

• Designated liaison person (DLP)

• Advisory panel

• Support Person

• Advisor

• Safeguarding committee

• Safeguarding trainers

• Local safeguarding representative (LSR)

• National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI)

• National Case Management Committee (NCMC)

• Leaders of Youth Ministry

• Sacristan

• Parish safeguarding representative:

• Support Persons