safeguarding officer
As an ethnic minority female in my seventies, I bring a lifetime of lived experience, resilience and an instinctive ability to connect across diverse cultures, generations and church traditions For over 15 plus years I have served my Parish as church warden, safeguarding officer, PCC member, Sunday school Leader.
As a longstanding Parish Safeguarding officer, I have built robust safeguarding structures from the ground up – actively recruiting embedding best practices.
Parish Safeguarding Officer, Tadcaster Benefice
I serve as Parish Safeguarding Officer for the Tadcaster Benefice.
I was Safeguarding Officer for the whole of the parish, developing and maintaining safeguarding good practice.
Lay Minister, Churchwarden and Parish Safeguarding Officer
Proposer: Sue Say, Holy Trinity Wavertree, Toxteth & Wavertree, Parish Safeguarding Officer Seconder: Peter Dorling, St John the Baptist Burscough, Ormskirk, Diocesan Parish Share Review Group
I currently serve as Churchwarden, Parish Safeguarding Officer, and PCC secretary for the Parish of Wellspring Villages, part of the Swindon Deanery, our parish is the furthest East of the Diocese of Bristol.
My IT work in our Diocese saw me working very closely with the Safeguarding team, as we sought to provide systems and resources to assist our unsung heroes - the Parish Safeguarding Officer.
I am still church warden and at our last APCM I was asked to be the parish safeguarding officer too.
• Parish Safeguarding Officer from 2010 until 2023.
Parish Safeguarding Officer
Safeguarding remains a challenge nationally and locally; as a Parish Safeguarding Officer I know what good practice asks of a parish. “Declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.” 1 P E T E R 2 : 9 · M Y D E S I R E I S T O S E R V E T H E C H U R C H W H O L E H E A R T E D L Y , T H A T I T M I G H T O B E Y T H I S
■ Two years already served on Synod, including panels for the appointment of Bishops, and speaking in debates. ■ Thirty years of parish service: Warden, Safeguarding Officer, PCC Trustee, small group and student leadership. ■ A surgeon’s habits: weighing evidence, taking hard decisions, holding hard conversations with care. ■ Lived experience of arriving in England as a migrant child, and of coming to Christian faith as an adult. ■ A working knowledge of science and medicine, of direct use in Synod’s debates on science and faith, and on climate change.
I have been a Christian for over 50 years, worshipping and serving God as a Sunday School teacher, Youth Leader, Parish Safeguarding Officer, Deanery Synod Representative and Licensed Lay Minister.
Aged 47; married; Teaching Assistant at Christ Church Primary and Nursery Academy and Sunday School leader in Parish Church and Parish Children and Families Work Co-ordinator March 2020 to present; Teaching Assistant at Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School 2002 to 2012, Staff Governor 2010 to 2012; Teaching Assistant at West Wittering Parochial Church of England School 2012 to 2020, Co-opted Governor of Palatine Primary School 2022 - 2024 , Mothers’ Union member and Safeguarding Officer at St Andrews,
I am the Safeguarding Officer for my church, and I know that Safeguarding must be a priority for any community, especially the Church.
For around three years I have also served as our Parish Safeguarding Officer.
I have a long term interest in Safeguarding: I was for many years the Early Years representative on Bristol Safeguarding Children Board, and a Parish Safeguarding Officer.
Returning to Barrow, I joined St. Mark’s Church, where I have served in a number of roles, including Sunday school leader, home group leader, Parish Safeguarding Officer (since 2012), occasional preacher & PCC member (and thus Trustee).
I was christened, confirmed and married in St John the Evangelist Church, Gateshead Fell and am currently Churchwarden, Parish Safeguarding Officer and organist there and lead Services of the Word with my fellow Churchwarden.
I worship at St James’ Church Weybridge, where I am the PCC Secretary and the Parish Safeguarding Officer.
Parish Safeguarding Officer (2014–2025), ensuring compliance, training, and safe-church practice.
Just a few words to introduce myself Currently I am a Safeguarding Officer living in a coastal village on the edge of West Dorset.
Soon, I agreed to serve as our church’s safeguarding officer and continue to do so.
SAFEGUARDING - I have been a parish safeguarding officer and appreciate that safeguarding is a complex and stressful process.
I am also the Parish Safeguarding Officer.
General information about me I attend Christ Church Epsom Common where I'm on the PCC, a Life Group member, the Epsom Deanery Synod rep, and the Parish Safeguarding Officer.
I am on my church PCC and Deanery Synod, support my husband who is church warden, help lead services, arrange community events and contact with local organisations and have been the Parish Safeguarding Officer for many years.
I have also served as the church Safeguarding Officer.
• Ensures that the safeguarding officer in each diocese is given the power to act
At St Paul’s I am Churchwarden and Safeguarding Officer.
I am currently the Safeguarding Officer for my Parish church and have been since the establishment of safeguarding positions.
I have regularly attended St Peter and St Paul’s King’s Sutton for over 30 years and am currently a member of the PCC and Parish Safeguarding Officer.
Safeguarding Officer
Having served for eight years as a Parish Safeguarding Officer I am aware of the need to face Safeguarding issues openly, transparently and with a zero tolerance approach.
I have been a Parish Safeguarding Officer for over twenty five years and serve as an independent member of the local Diocesan and Cathedral Safeguarding Advisory Panel.
Candidate for election as a lay representative of Blackburn Diocese to the General Synod, 2026–2031 I have been part of All Saints’ Church, New Longton throughout my adult life, serving as a PCC member, Vision Champion, Parish Safeguarding Officer and Foundation Governor of our village school.
serve as Parish Safeguarding Officer and Joint Incumbency Committee member.
• Supporter of Scripture Union, serving as a leader (and latterly also Safeguarding Officer) on
I am currently Parish Safeguarding Officer at St Helen's and St Edmund's, Costessey.
Safeguarding: As a parish safeguarding officer, I understand the practical challenges of supporting children, disabled people, vulnerable adults and older people.
My wife, a teacher, is our safeguarding officer.
I am an Associate Professor, was a Deputy Safeguarding Officer for a number of years and teach undergraduates as well as graduates taking professional qualifications.
I have held several roles on PCC, including secretary, treasurer and parish safeguarding officer.
I serve at St Luke’s Prestonville on the PCC and have been a Parish Safeguarding Officer for seven years.
As a local Churchgoer I act as Benefice Safeguarding Officer .
As Parish Safeguarding Officer, I oversee safeguarding compliance for around 182 volunteers and staff across our parish.
Parish Safeguarding Officer
I felt a calling to serve my church further and decided to become a safeguarding officer and most recently a church warden.