Email Emma.Pearce@urc.org.uk to book *Please note the date has changed from February 4th to February 11th.
A free webinar for the Faith sector with Laura Gaskell who is the National Outreach Advisor for the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This workshop will cover: The benefits of DBS and your organisation working together. The different levels of DBS checks available. Eligibility, and when an employee or volunteer is eligible for a particular level of check. What ‘regulated activity’ is. What the DBS Update Service is, and its benefits. Other safer recruitment practices that can be in place and how DBS checks form a part of these.
Email Emma.Pearce@urc.org.uk to book
This in-person and online conference will equip churches and ordinands to know about modern slavery and human trafficking in their contexts; to identify people at risk, and to safeguard. With contributions from The Together Free Foundation and Churches Together in Cambridgeshire.
Email Emma.Pearce@urc.org.uk to book
A free webinar for the Faith sector with Laura Gaskell who is the National Outreach Advisor for the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This workshop will cover: Understand the benefits of DBS and your organisation working together. Understand the three different referral routes. Understand when a DBS Barring referral should be made, including when the legal duty is met. Understand what Regulated Activity is. Understand how to make a good quality referral. Have a clear understanding of the consequences of not making appropriate barring referrals and the consequences of being included in one or both Barred Lists.
The Eastern Synod gathers to worship, discuss and decide together at Plume Avenue URC, Colchester on the 8th March 2025
A training course for authorised elders (or those whose church meeting have asked them to be ) and lay preachers. Suitable as a first course or as a refresher course March 13th 2pm Synod Offices Whittlesford Contact - admin@urceastern.org.uk