All staff and volunteers working with children must have a DBS criminal records check and attend regular church and diocese safeguarding training events. Our Parish Safeguarding Officer is Sue Griffiths who attends the church regularly and can be contacted about any child protection issues.
If you have any concerns or questions to do with safeguarding in general please contact Sue Griffiths, the Vicar, Revd Will Kemp, Associate Vicar, Gareth Harper, our Youth Pastor, Dean Gargano, our Young Families and Children’s Pastor, Lucy Marsh or our Safeguarding Administrator Ellie Zaragoza.
We highly value our children and adults at risk at St Andrew’s and we do everything we can to ensure that they all have a wonderful, safe and supportive experience of church. All our staff and volunteers working with children undergo safeguarding training according to the Diocese of Chichester requirements, and they are all required to undergo a criminal records check (DBS) before having contact with children.
Our Parish Safeguarding Officer is Sue Griffiths. Sue is a teacher who currently works as a Well-being lead in a SEND school with over 30 years experience. She is very approachable and regularly attends our 11am Sunday service. Do contact Sue if you have any concerns about the safety of children or adults at risk at St Andrew’s. Her phone number is 07871 172600, or email Sue Griffiths on safeguarding@standrewsbh.org.uk
If it is not possible to contact Sue, please contact any of our Safeguarding team who are:
Revd Will Kemp (Vicar), Gareth Harper (Associate Vicar), Dean Gargano (Youth Pastor), Lucy Marsh (Young Families and Children’s Pastor) or Ellie Zaragoza (Safeguarding Administrator).
If you are a child and you need to talk to someone about things that are happening to you that you don’t like, please click on this link which takes you the Childline website, or telephone Childline on 0800 1111. Download the Childline ‘For Me App’ here. Another helpful website to look at is Kidscape.
If you are an adult and you need to access support about something that is happening to you, please click on this link – www.safeguarding.chichester.anglican.org/Ihavebeenabused/ to find out how you can do that. Scroll down to find links to various support organisations for you to contact.
If you need to contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Team, please call 01273 421021, click on this link or go to https://safeguarding.chichester.anglican.org/
Other useful links
Local Agencies
National Agencies
- NSPCC – 0808 800 5000
- Childline – 0800 1111
- NAPAC – 0808 801 0331
- Samaritans – 116 123
- Family Lives – 0808 800 2222
- National Domestic Violence Helpline – 0808 2000 247
- Action on Elder Abuse – 0808 808 8141
Support for Victims and Survivors
- Stop it Now – 0808 1000 900
- MACSAS Survivors Voices – 08088 010340
- Survivors’ Network – 01273 720110