Safeguarding Weekend 2025
Please find details below for events over the weekend of Friday 14th to Sunday 16th November 2025:
- Friday 14th November 2025 @ 17:00 GMT/WET | 18:00 CET | 19:00 EET
We welcome you to join us and others from across the diocese, as we kick off this important weekend with a special service to mark Safeguarding Weekend. Click here to join the service on Zoom.
- Saturday 15th November 2025 @ 09:30 GMT/WET | 10:30 CET | 11:30 EET
We host our conference for our CSOs and other invited guests, where we welcome a representative of the Dashboard. And the DST will provide some early insight to the INEQE review, that is scheduled in 2027. The Zoom link has been shared via separate email to CSOs.
- Sunday 16th November 2025 - Safeguarding Sunday
Thousands of churches from diverse backgrounds and traditions in the UK and Europe will join together to shout about safeguarding and protecting vulnerable people. There are lots of resources available to support your chaplaincy on the 31:8 website: Safeguarding Sunday.
CSO mentoring workshops
Thank you to Carolyn, Maxine and Celia for running this series of workshops, and thank you to the safeguarding officers who attended.
The first workshop looked at the responsibilities of the role, Confidential Declaration Forms, the Chaplaincy Roles Checklist and the CSO's relationship with the chaplaincy council. Watch the recording here.
Workshop two covered safeguarding checks. Watch the recording here.
Workshop three was about safeguarding concerns, making a record of a concern or a disclosure and making referrals to the Diocesan Safeguarding Team. Watch the recording here.
Supporting Victims / Survivors and those impacted
A Zoom recording of the 2022 workshop is available here. The access passcode is: 5afeguard1ng*.
Lisa's PowerPoint presentation and notes are available on request to europe.safeguarding@churchofengland.org.