At Borehamwood Baptist Church, we include people into the life of our community, have a programme of activities with children and young people and make our premises available to organisations working with children and young people.

Safeguarding involves a range of activities aimed at promoting the individual’s fundamental right to be safe. These include making and maintaining safe environments for all, having processes to follow should something go wrong, and support for everyone involved. Across Baptists Together, we are committed in our churches, associations, colleges and Specialist Teams to support excellence in safeguarding. We have worked hard to put in place policies, procedures, training and support to help all those who work with children, young people and adults at risk.

Borehamwood Baptist Church recognises its responsibilities for the safeguarding of all children and young people under the age of 18 (regardless of gender, ethnicity or ability) as set out in The Children Act 1989 and 2004, Safe from Harm (HM Government 1994) and Working Together to Safeguard Children (HM Government 2010).

As members of this church we commit ourselves to the nurturing, protection and safeguarding of all children and young people associated with the church and will pray for them regularly. In pursuit of this we commit ourselves to the following policies and to the development of procedures to ensure their implementation.