We are committed to the safeguarding, care and nurture of everyone within our community.
Call 999 if a child or adult is in immediate danger of significant or serious harm.
If you are worried about a current or historic incidence of abuse – which could be sexual, financial, emotional, controlling behaviour, bullying or domestic abuse – you don’t need to suffer alone.
Please contact:
Parish Safeguarding Officer.
Rev Julie Read
Tel: 01568 708255 / 07826 194400
rev.julie@btinternet.com

You can also seek advice from the Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser:
Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser
Carl Steventon
07593 817717
carl.steventon@hereford.anglican.org

Or report the matter to your Local Authority Social Care Services or the Police. If in doubt, please don’t hesitate to call the police:
Herefordshire Council Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
Children: 01432 260800
Adult: 01432 260715
Emergency Duty Team: 0330 123 9309 (after 5 pm, weekends and Public Holidays)

National helplines:
NSPCC – 0808 800 5000
Childline – 0800 1111
Stop it Now – 0808 1000 900
NAPAC – 0808 801 0331
Samaritans – 116 123
Family Lives – 0808 800 2222
National Domestic Violence Helpline – 0808 2000 247
Action on Elder Abuse – 0808 808 8141

You can find out more about Safeguarding in the Church of England here:
https://www.churchofengland.org/safeguarding

And you can read the Parish Safeguarding Handbook here:
https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/ParishSafeGuardingHandBookAugust2019Web.pdf