Making Your Safe Ministry Policy Easy to Find
An important step in working towards making your ministry safer is writing a Safe Ministry Policy. This policy should clearly outline your ministry’s aims and principals for providing a safe …
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SafeMinistryCheck.com.au and the 10 Child Safe Standards
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses the Child Sexual Abuse recommended 10 child safe standards, drawing on its findings and extensive research and consultation about what makes institutions child safe. …
What is a safe church culture?
One of the big recommendations to come out of the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse was that the culture of institutions and communities needed to change …
Why would you train everyone in your church?
We want churches to be organisations that are safe for children and vulnerable people. The third national principle for Child Safe Organisations¹ is that “families and communities are informed and …
Elvanto Syncing with Safe Ministry Check
At Safe Ministry Check, we’re genuinely excited about making life easier for churches and organisations by lightening their administrative tasks. One great way we do this is by helping you …
Automatic Working with Children Checks
Why do Working With Children Checks? All states and territories in Australia require all people working with children and young people to have a current Working With Children Check (or …
New training videos for your whole community
Safe Ministry Training has been helping churches establish safe ministries for over five years and over the years we have learnt that having a safe ministry is much more than …
Announcing a new partnership with Ansvar Insurance and Safe Ministry Training
We are really excited to announce that Ansvar Insurance is currently working with us to create a brand new Safe Ministry Training product for churches and ministry organisations. Ansvar has a long …
Safe Teacher to Child Ratios
A common question for churches and ministry programs for children is whether there is an official teacher-to-child ratio. While there’s no legal requirement for churches to have a specific ratio, …
Are they a Volunteer or an Employee?
It might seem strange in church-world, but for the purposes of Work Health and Safety Act 2011 people who volunteer at your church are called “workers”. The same is true for …