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to recognise the unique status of children. There is a special need to respect them as individuals and protect them in their vulnerability. Jesus warned that those who exploited or abused children deserved profound condemnation. Within the kingdom of God, children matter in their own right and are to be taken seriously.</li> <li>The Church is required by God to foster relationships of the utmost integrity, truthfulness and trustworthiness. Clergy and laity who work with children within the Church in any paid or voluntary capacity need to operate within a carefully thought-out framework of good policy and practice which will ensure that children are safeguarded and nurtured physically and emotionally as well as spiritually. Clergy and laity need to exercise the greatest care in their use of power and authority. They must avoid taking advantage of trust.</li> <li>The highest professional standards will therefore be maintained in all pastoral, counselling, educational, worship and recreational situations. The exploitation of any relationship for self-gratification will not be tolerated.</li> <li>The Diocese of Ely accepts the principle enshrined in the Children Act 1989<sup>1</sup> that the welfare of the child is paramount.</li> <li>Allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and appropriate steps will be taken.</li> <li>The Diocese of Ely will collaborate fully with the statutory and voluntary agencies concerned with child abuse. It will not conduct investigations on its own.</li> <li>All those working or seeking to work with children will be properly recruited, trained and supported, and will be subject to whatever supervision is appropriate.</li> <li>All candidates for ordained ministry and accredited lay ministry will be asked to declare whether they have any criminal convictions or whether certain types of orders of the civil courts have been made against them, and whether they have caused significant harm to a child or put a child at risk of significant harm.</li> <li>The following will be asked to complete and submit the confidential declaration form<sup>2</sup> which forms part of the Diocesan Child Protection Folder<sup>3</sup>: <ol> <li>all clergy, whether stipendiary or not, who hold or are seeking to hold an office, a licence or a permission to officiate or exercise their ministry<sup>4</sup>;</li> <li>all members of the accredited lay ministry (including lay workers within the meaning of Canon Law and readers) who hold or are seeking a licence or permission to exercise their ministry; and</li> <li>all paid staff and volunteers working or seeking to work in a capacity which involves work with children or which is likely to involve opportunities for unsupervised contact with them.</li> </ol> <li>A search in the Department of Health's Consultancy Service Index will be made against all candidates for ordained ministry or accredited lay ministry, all those in categories (1) and (2) in paragraph 9 and those working or seeking to work as paid staff as set out in category (3).</li> <li>In the case of all those seeking to do paid or unpaid work under category (3) in paragraph 9, references will be obtained which satisfy the recommendations in the Home Office's Guidelines, <em>Safe from Harm</em>. <li>The procedures under paragraphs 9 to 11 above will be repeated on the person concerned seeking to move to a new appointment or position or new work.</li> </ol> </div> <div class="main"> <h4>Notes</h4> <ol> <li>The Children Act 1989 defines a child as a person under eighteen for most purposes.</li> <li>The form includes questions as to whether the person concerned has any criminal convictions, whether certain types of orders of the civil courts have been made against them and whether they have or have been alleged to have caused significant harm to a child or put a child at risk of significant harm.</li> <li>In the case of new appointments, the procedures described in the Home Office document <em>Safe from Harm</em> (and in the case of paid workers the further advice from the House of Bishops), should be followed (Sheet4).</li> <li>This category includes those in episcopal orders, and retired clergy holding permission to officiate. It also includes clergy of other Anglican Churches, and clergy of other churches acting on the basis of or seeking permission from one of the Archbishops to exercise their ministry in the Diocese of Ely. Clergy holding or seeking an office or employment with a body outside the Church and not involved in any other ministry are not required to submit the declaration, and the procedure under paragraph 10 will not be necessary, provided that they are subject to a corresponding process in relation to the office or employment in question. (This would cover chaplains in a variety of fields of ministry.)</li> </ol> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="main"> <p><h4>This Diocesan Policy follows exactly the <em>Church of England House of Bishops' Policy on Child Protection</em> which was published in 1999 for the General Synod of the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility by Church House Publishing. ISBN 07151 6585 2</h4></p> <p><h4>Copies may be obtained from Church House Bookshop, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3NZ at 3.95.</h4></p></div> <div id="footer"> <i>If you have any comments about this site, or if you have any questions about LSM that we haven't succeeded in answering on these pages, the <a href="mailto:webmaster@lsm.org.uk">webmaster</a> looks forward to hearing from you.</i><br></br> <p><i><small>Webmaster would like to thank many members of LSM for their contributions to this site, in particular Fr Mark Bishop, Patricia Davies, Dave Goode, Fr Andrew Greany, Tessa Hobbs, Sarah MacDonald, Sarah Martin, Rebecca Nye, Catherine Osborne, Robin Osborne, Christian Rutherford, Mary Ward, Julia Wheatcroft, Tim Wheatley and James Yardley.</small></i></p> </div> </body> </html>