Compliance

or a PCV church to be Safe Church Compliant the church must have:

• Completed and returned the Working With Children Check Records (with all appropriate personnel having a WWCC) to SCU
• Have had appropriate personnel undertake Safe Church training annually.
• Appointed a Safe Church Representative
• Completed and returned the Compliance Audit Schedule to the SCU on a triennial basis.

Compliant churches are able to be issued with a Compliance Certificate which may be displayed at the church. Email the Safe Church Unit for details.

The Victorian Child Safe Standards

All organisations in Victoria that work with children must comply with the Child Safe Standards. For further information about how the PCV complies with the Child Safe Standards via the PCV Safe Church programme, please contact the Safe Church Facilitator.

Safe Church Representatives

Safe Church Compliance Requirements (Victorian & Australian Government
Legislation)
• All PCV congregations are required to have a Safe Church Representative
• The role of the Safe Church Representative is to:

• oversee compliance requirements
• keep all Safe Church records
• report records to the Safe Church Unit
• display Safe Church material
• promote Safe Church Training and Refresher Courses
  • Records to be kept - Working With Children Checks
• Documentation of Safe Church Training Completion
• Volunteer and staff registration forms and information (ID, referees)
• PCV transfer registration forms
• Safe Church due diligence checks
• Children’s Ministry registration/permission forms
• Children’s Ministry medical/special needs management plans
• Children’s Ministry Records of Attendance
• First Aid records
• Camp Records of Attendance
  • Compliance Audit Schedule - completed every 3 years by the Safe Church Representative,
  signed off by Session and submitted to the Safe Church Unit due 2026
  • Working with Children checklist to be submitted yearly in November to the Safe Church Unit
  who submit it to the Safe Church Committee of Assembly.
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  Privacy Requirements
  • All personal data must be kept private.
  • Data collected for COVID cannot be used for church data collection.
  • Church data can be collected via other means with consent.
  • A PCV privacy collection notice must be included when collecting data.
  • Photos/videos for use by the church require consent.