PEC has the responsibility to protect and safeguard the welfare of all children and young people who are associated with the youth works the church engages in. None but the highest standards of thoughtfulness and responsibility will do. The honour of the LORD Jesus Christ and the credibility of PEC before a watching world depend almost entirely upon how PEC administers and runs all of its youth groups.
In order to best achieve these necessary and vital aims PEC’s Child Protection Policy covers the following areas:
i) The vetting of workers and the use of signed agreements.
ii) Ratios of adults to young people.
iii) Behavioural expectations and disciplinary measures.
iv) Health and Safety, First Aid and procedures in the event of accidents.
v) Registering attendance and the gathering of essential information.
vi) Parental permission and communication with parents.
vii) Being alone with children/transporting/toileting.
viii) Action to be taken if abuse is suspected.
ix) Action to be taken if accusations are levelled against adult workers.
No-one is permitted to work with children or young people under the auspices of PEC until they have read PEC’s Child Protection Policy and PEC’s Physical Restraint Policy, declared their willingness to comply with all their requirements, affirmed they have no convictions which prohibit them from working with children, and signed a confidential statement to these effects.