The Culture of Safety Unit works with people throughout the Church \u2013 whether in congregations, presbyteries or Synod \u2013 to make sure our Synod is a safe place for all.<\/p>\n
Our special concern is to develop a culture and systems to encourage behaviour that helps Church people \u2013 both ordained and lay \u2013 to consider the conduct, ethics and responsibilities required of them.<\/p>\n
We provide resources for reflection on ethical ministry and supervision and resources for congregations to assist them \u2013 and the whole Church \u2013 to be a safer place for all people.<\/p>\n
Culture of Safety is not about trip hazards, fire extinguishers and safe electrical connections. For that important work, you need to visit Occupational Health and Safety.<\/p>\n
This suite of resources assists congregations and Church councils to implement the Child Safe Policy (and its requirements). Child Safety is a key component of who we are as a Church \u2013 as well as a legal requirement of all organisations who engage with children and young people. Click here<\/a> for more information on policies, processes and resources to assist Church councils to care for children by implementing the Child Safe Policy.<\/p>\n The Assembly Code of Ethics and Ministry Practice<\/a> applies to all ministers, including retired ministers who are involved in any active ministry, candidates, pastors, chaplains and lay people engaged in ministry. All of these ministry agents are required to attend two Ethical Ministry Refreshers each year. Contact your presbytery for dates for the next Ethical Ministry Refresher in your area.<\/p>\n Requirements for retired ministers can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you are concerned that a minister or other ministry agent has breached the Code of Ethics, please contact your presbytery minister.<\/p>\n This is required of all ministers in active ministry. A list of UCA supervisors to ministers is available by contacting cultureofsafetycontact@victas.uca.org.au<\/a> or visiting the Australasian Association of Supervision<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Culture of Safety Unit is located at Level 2, Wesley Place, 130 Lonsdale St, Melbourne. We encourage behaviour that helps church people to consider the ethics and responsibilities required of them. We also ensure help is available to those who have been harmed by other people\u2019s unethical or unsafe behaviour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5794,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-310","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22171,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310\/revisions\/22171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church.debug.victas.uca.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Code of Ethics and Ministry Practice<\/h3>\n
Ministry supervision<\/h3>\n
Contacts<\/h3>\n
\nFor general enquiries, email us here<\/a>.
\nTo learn more about Keeping Children Safe, click here<\/a>.
\nFor Working With Children\/Vulnerable People Checks, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"