Safeguarding
The National Society for Education is one of the National Church Institutions and is committed to the protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults and will take all reasonable steps to protect those who come into contact with our organisation from harm or abuse, for example, through safer recruitment activities, providing relevant safeguarding training to all staff and ensuring robust mechanisms for reporting safeguarding concerns are in place.
National Society Safeguarding Statement
While the Church of England has a long-standing relationship with its schools and supports them through Diocesan Boards of Education in areas such as Christian ethos, governance, and religious education, these schools are part of the state education system. They are fully accountable to the Department for Education, Ofsted, and local authority safeguarding arrangements with statutory responsibility for safeguarding. The Church does not run these schools in an operational sense, nor is it responsible for their safeguarding arrangements.
However, our work does give us a unique position within the wider National Church Institutions in terms of our interactions with educational spaces. Therefore, we have a supplementary statement outlining our approach to safeguarding which sits under the national policy above.