Child Safety Standards

More than 80 per cent of Australian congregations have now submitted either a Child Safety Plan for their congregation or parish or an assurance that they have no children in regular attendance.

The LCANZ’s Child Protection Project Team this month has released two new congregational resources supporting the church’s Child Safety Standards (CSS). The new resources back up Child Safety Standard 2 – ‘We value, respect and listen to children’.

Child Safety Plans for congregations are now due on 31 March 2023, after the LCANZ’s General Church Board (GCB) approved an extension to the original deadline of 20 September 2022.

Child Safety Self-Assessments and Plans now only need to be completed on a biennial basis, once every two years, instead of annually.

We are delighted to welcome Nicole Hall to the Church Safety Standards support team in the Churchwide office.

More than 370 people participated in the first LCA Child Safety Standards for Congregations webinar, held on Saturday 26 March.