NMBC Child Protection Policy

The Church Family recognizes that children, young people and dependent adults are an important part of church life and need to be shown love, understanding, respect and acceptance.  By adopting the following Child Protection Policy we undertake to provide a caring, welcoming environment which is enjoyable and safe for all enabling young people to grow spiritually and emotionally and share in the love of God.

The church family will:

• Commit
  themselves to the nurturing, protection and safekeeping of all, especially children and young people.
• Recognize
  that our work with children and young people is the responsibility of the whole church community.
• Implement
  the necessary steps to reduce the opportunities for child abuse to take place.
• Undertake
  to exercise proper care in the selection, appointment, supervision and support of those working with children, whether paid or volunteer.
• Equip
  and undertake to resource and train those appointed into positions of responsibility with children.
• Accept
  and endorse the principles of the Children’s Act 1989 and the guidelines and principles published by the Baptist Union of Great Britain in its booklet “Safe to Grow”.
• Appoint
  a Child Protection Team to review, monitor, supervise and support the work with children and young people within our church.