{"id":7122,"date":"2025-11-28T17:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/?page_id=7122"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:16:29","slug":"safeguarding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/safeguarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Safeguarding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Loch Leven Church acknowledges its duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults to ensure their safety and well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, government guidance and complies with best practice. We believe in the necessity of creating a healthy culture where the value of all people is recognised and where we respond appropriately when this is undermined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loch Leven Church will work in partnership with other relevant agencies, as and when, appropriate to ensure there are clear lines of accountability and decision-making processes within legal parameters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a Safeguarding Policy, which is updated annually. This can be downloaded from this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/LLC-Safeguarding-Policy_2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LLC Safeguarding Policy 2026<\/a>. All those who work regularly and directly with young people or vulnerable adults are PVG checked and undergo training at appropriate intervals as required by law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The designated Safeguarding Officers for Loch Leven Church are: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joanna Coyle &#8211; Safeguarding Lead &#8211; 07535472353 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anne Stoton \u2013 Assistant and PVG lead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Gibb, Graeme Gunn and Ant Drew &#8211; Elders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any safeguarding concerns must be discussed directly with one of them or referred via email to:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:safeguarding@llc.org.uk\">safeguarding@llc.org.uk<\/a> in a timely fashion and before any further action is taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loch Leven Church acknowledges its duty of care to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults to ensure their safety and well-being. Our safeguarding practice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/safeguarding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Safeguarding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7653,"href":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7122\/revisions\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lochlevenchurch.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}