Safeguarding

At St Alban's we take the safety of all our community very seriously. 

Our Safeguarding Officer, Cathy Tahsin works with the PCC to ensure that we have robust safeguarding policies and procedures in place: please click here to see our PCC policy document.

St Albans has appointed Cathy Tahsin as our Safeguarding Officer. She is ably assisted by our  Deputy Safeguarding Officer and our Children's Champion Carys Grom. 
Our Safeguarding Officer is the first person to contact if you have any concerns around the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult. 

All our safeguarding information and practices are set out in the Parish Safeguarding Handbook. All our volunteers and employees follow the Code of Safer Working Practice. You can download this presentation about our Safeguarding policies made at our last Annual meeting or view it at the bottom of this page. 

Please see here for our guidance for church hall hire.

If you would prefer to speak with someone outside the church call the London Diocesan Safeguarding Officer 020 7932 122 or go to their website. The Church of England has their own advice page here.

Other helpful contact details

There is a very helpful page on the Diocesan Website with listed contacts here and there are others listed below:

• Harrow Safeguarding 02089012690 and out of hours 02089012690
• Barnados - Child protection charity 
• Stop It Now - Preventing child sexual abuse: 0808 1000 900 
• Child Exploitation and Online Protection - to report online abuse 
• Family Lives - Parenting and Family Support: 0808 800 2222 
• Restored - Christian Survivors of Domestic Abuse
• Hourglass - Safer ageing - Stopping abuse: 080 8808 8141 
• Social Care Institute for Excellence - Best practice in social care
• Government information on Modern Slavery
• The Clewer Initiative - Opposing modern slavery 
• MACSAS - Minister & Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors charity Sat 9-11.30am, Wed 7-9.30pm 08088 010340, emails checked daily. 
• Survivors Voices - Survivor-led peer support.
  

Following the publication of the report of The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse the Diocese of London have published this statement.