Safeguarding Dashboards are an essential resource for every parish. By signing up to the Parish Safeguarding Dashboard and regularly updating and filling it in, you are contributing to the safety and well-being of our community. Don’t be daunted by the dashboard, or feel you are alone. My team and I are here to help with any concerns or questions you may have. Simply get in touch and we will support you. Together, we can make a difference.
Ben Goodhind, Safeguarding Manager
Go to the Safeguarding Dashboard website for useful tips and video guides.
What are the Safeguarding Dashboards?
Safeguarding Dashboards - feedback from parish users
The Parish Safeguarding Dashboard is a vital safeguarding tool which helps us:
- monitor and manage our safeguarding practices effectively
- track training
- report concerns
- ensure that all safeguarding measures are up to date
Safeguarding Dashboards:
- take you through all the safeguarding tasks that need to completed by a parish so that you know you have done all you need to do. The aim is to provide safeguarding officers with everything they need in one place, removing the need to have multiple handbooks, guides and manuals to hand.
- illustrate how the parish is progressing against the 'ideal' parish safeguarding standards set out in the Parish Safeguarding Handbook. It has template documents and can produce an action plan for the PCC to identify what things need to be addressed most urgently.
- remove the need for safeguarding questions in the Articles of Enquiry and paper-based safeguarding audits as the archdeacons can see all of the parish dashboards in their archdeaconry.
- work equally well on a computer or smartphone, and is intuitive to use – simply tick the answer that corresponds to safeguarding in your parish on a series of multiple choice questions, and that section of the Dashboard goes Green (you have reached or exceeded the required standard), Amber (you’re doing okay, but there are still some things you could consider) or Red (please take the action plan to your next PCC meeting, so that arrangements for safeguarding can be put into place).
Safeguarding Dashboards - feedback from our parish users
“The dashboard has been extremely helpful in ensuring we have completed all actions needed, and gives me reassurance that we have not missed anything significant.”
“Parish Dashboards working well so far. Very useful to have the Action Plan to pass on to PCC to have Safeguarding needs high on the agenda of meetings in a formalised manner.”
“As a new PSO I have found both very helpful in focusing myself and the PCC on what we need to do. The reminders are very handy.”
“I find the Parish Dashboard a very good tool particularly as a reminder of which safeguarding actions need attention. It’s easy to navigate and to share the action plan with the PCC so that regular reviews can take place.”
“I found the dashboard easy to use once I had initially looked through it, and the online training was brilliant and easy to follow.”