Safeguarding

We take our reponsibilities for safeguarding and our obligation to protect all extremely seriously at St Margarets. 

The national Church of England has developed robust procedures and guidelines.  As a result St Margaret's Church has adopted the House of Bishops’ “Promoting a Safer Church" safeguarding policy statement. 

This policy is available online via the Diocesan website  here  and a Parish Safeguarding Handbook is here. 

Our local Parish Safeguarding Officer is Miranda Hungerford who can be contacted on 0797 065 5092  churchofficestmargarets@gmail.com

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If you have any safeguarding concerns, or issues on a safeguarding matter, then you can also find useful contact information at

 https://www.rochester.anglican.org/safeguarding 

There there are contact numbers of the Diocesan Safeguarding Team as well as details of national support organisations outside of the Church. 

There is a page specifically for victims and survivor support here: 

https://www.rochester.anglican.org/safeguarding/supportforvictimsandsurvivors/

If you think that someone is in immediate danger or there is an immediate risk, the best thing to do is to call 999.