Your welfare and well-being while participating in the Future of Church Safeguarding Programme (the Programme) is really important to us. 

You are welcome to tell us as little or as much as you like during your engagement with the Programme. Any information you share with us will remain confidential and will be anonymised before being used in our final report – this means there is no risk of you, or anyone else, being identified. 

We are unable to support you with safeguarding issues you may have already raised, or wish to raise, about an individual, or individuals, within the Church of England. These issues remain subject to Church of England safeguarding processes. 

However, we have our own process for safeguarding the welfare of participants during our work, including how we respond to information you share with us that leads us to believe that:

• you or someone else has been harmed
• is at risk of harm
• you or someone else has harmed someone else, or is at risk of  harming someone else

This process is not linked to the Church of England. 

We will speak with you if we need to take action and pass information to organisations that can take protective action, like the police or social care. However in some cases, we will have to break our confidentiality with you to pass information without your consent where we have a legal obligation to do so. 

To find out in more detail what we mean by safeguarding and how we will respond during our work, please click here.