Safe Church 

The Safe Church Helpline is available to all staff, volunteers and attendees of churches and other ministries related to C3 Churches throughout Australia. If you have any questions or concerns related to a matter of safety we recommend in the first instance that you speak with a leader or pastor at our church. However if you'd prefer, you're very welcome to contact the Helpline directly.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse held 57 formal public hearings about child sexual abuse within institutions across many different sectors, hearing from 1,200 witnesses over 400 days, across all Australian capital cities and in several regional areas. These case studies focused on how institutions responded to allegations and proven instances of child sexual abuse (Royal Commission Final Report, 2017).

From this enormous body of work, the Royal Commission recommended organisational child safe standards to provide a nationally consistent approach to creating organisational cultures that foster child safety and wellbeing across all sectors in Australia.

The National Principles for Child Safe Organisations were developed by the National Children’s Commissioner and reflect the ten Child Safe standards recommended by the Royal Commission, with a broader scope that goes beyond sexual abuse to cover other forms of potential harm.
Through C3 Australia's partnership with Safe Ministry Resources our church is working to effectively implement and maintain these principles throughout our organisation.

Play the video to watch our volunteer onboarding training. In order to our fulfil government and insurance requirements all volunteers are required to complete this training and return a signed copy of the Volunteer Code of Conduct. (NB. Leaders and Staff are also required to participate in additional training and sign a different Code of Conduct.)

Play the video to watch our leader's onboarding training. All leaders (and staff) are required to view this training AS WELL AS the Volunteer onboarding training and return a signed Leadership (or Staff) Code of Conduct.