Safeguarding Self-Evaluation

online forms and guidance notes

Effective monitoring and planning must be a continuous commitment which underpins the development of good safeguarding practice at all levels in the Church. IN GOD'S IMAGE Standard 8 requires that ongoing self-evaluation of safeguarding practice should be undertaken by all those responsible for managing safeguarding in parishes, dioceses, religious congregations and Catholic organisations.

Each year the SCSSA is charged with managing the formal self-evaluation exercise that is designed to ensure that a consistent approach to self-evaluation is being used in all Church jurisdictions. This exercise is intended to facilitate analysis, reporting and planning. In particular, it enables the SCSSA to gather data and track progress in safeguarding practice from year to year and across all Church jurisdictions in Scotland. For this purpose, each year the SCSSA provides particular Self-Evaluation questionnaires, relevant to each jurisdiction.  

In self-evaluating 2024 Safeguarding practice, the process will focus mostly on quantitative data attached to IGI Standards 1 to 5. This is to allow the SCSSA along with dioceses, religious congregations and Catholic organisations to embark upon a process facilitated by the Kinharvie Institute that will focus on key strategic issues related to Safeguarding structures and responsibilities.