The Diocese is committed to is committed to the safeguarding policies of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, to protect children and young people from neglect, physical, emotional and sexual abuse and to promote a safe environment for them.
As from 1 July 2008 COPCA (the national Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults) ceased to exist and the Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service (CSAS) came into effect. Contact details are as follows (new since 1st Sept. 09):
Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Service
Queensway House
57 Livery Street
Birmingham
B3 1HA
Tel: 0121 237 3740
Fax: 0121 237 3741
E-mail: Team secretary sophie.robbins@csas.uk.net
Website : www.csas.uk.net
In addition the designations within Dioceses and Religious changed on that day, though the contact details remain the same. The changed designations are as follows:
• Child Protection Commissioners > Safeguarding Commissions
• Child Protection Coordinators > Safeguarding Coordinators
• Religious Child Protection Coordinators > Religious Safeguarding Coordinators
• Child Protection Officers > Safeguarding Officers/Advisors
• Parish Child Protection Representatives > Parish Safeguarding Representatives
• Child Protection Link Persons > Safeguarding Link Persons
Diocese of Northampton Safeguarding Co-ordinator: Ms. Kay Taylor-Duke.
Tel: 07799 888855. E-mail Northamptonsafeguarding@live.co.uk
Correspondence c/o Bishop's House, Marriott Street, Northampton NN2 6AW
Other Safeguarding Commission members:
Paul Murray (Chair), Rev. Richard Moroney, and representatives of Bedfordshire Police, St Francis Children's Society, Luton Social Services, the Probation Services and the NHS.
It is intended to create a sub-site, linked from here, giving full information about Safeguarding policy & practice, with downloadable documents.
You can download from here the June and December 2008 Newsletters sent out by Kay Taylor-Duke to all parish representatives and other interested parties, which give a lot of information about the current Safeguarding position. (But NB, you will need to select Safeguarding from the dropdown Categories menu, or type Safeguarding into the Downloads search box on the right - they won't show up by simply scrolling through all the general pages). You will also find some of the national CSAS newsletters ; a full selection is available from the CSAS site here - click on the "Documents" link