Safeguarding

Judith Knight

Director of People, Pastoral and Safeguarding
07801 750664

Judith leads on all Safer Recruitment issues

Brett Riches

Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser
01452 835516 / 07944 680320

Brett works Monday to Thursday each week.  He is the diocesan lead for all safeguarding casework and advice and guidance on safeguarding matters generally.

Melanie Biscoe

Assistant Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser
01452 835516

Melanie is our Assistant Diocesan Safeguarding Assistant and works full time in our Church House office.  Melanie triages all safeguarding enquiries and calls, and also has a lead safeguarding connection role with Sportily.

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Becca Faal

Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser
07944 680320

Becca is the Diocesan Strategic Lead for all our safeguarding training and learning.  With the national framework for learning pathways and creativity in having spotlight areas to raise awareness about, working with partner organisations and bringing her own professional experience, Becca works Weds-Friday each week.

Laura Evans

Safeguarding Training Administrator
01452 835531

Laura works with Becca as our safeguarding training administration and can answer your queries about how to log on to the national Church of England training portal for the online Basic and Foundation courses.

In addition Laura links directly with all our clergy, PTO clergy and Readers and automatically books them on to refresher training at the appropriate time to keep our records accurate and issues the completion certificates when training has been completed.

Kate Peake

DBS and Safer Recruitment Administrator
07401 284087

Kate works weekdays except Weds, from 9.30am to 4pm. She administers our processes including DBS, and our five year rolling recheck process. Please email Kate for any of your Safer Recruitment or DBS related questions.