Safeguarding and Spiritual Direction
Safeguarding is rightly an important concern in spiritual direction, and this applies in multiple ways. The Promoting and Protecting Good Practice Action Group has developed resources to help spiritual directors and those who are responsible for spiritual direction networks to be better equipped.
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Network Leaders: A
Checklist
A checklist for those responsible for networks and groups of spiritual directors in a diocese, region or organisation. This might involve supporting spiritual directors in their ongoing supervision and development, enabling people to find an appropriate spiritual director and ensuring safeguarding policies and practices are maintained by all involved.
Spiritual Directors:
A Framework for Reflection
To enable reflection on safeguarding within your own practice.
Spiritual Directors:
An Aide Memoir
A handy single page ‘aide memoir’ with key points regarding what to do when you are concerned that someone is at risk of abuse, is being abused or presents a risk to others, and what if someone tells you about abuse.
Disclaimer:
The above documents are for reflection, and are not a definitive set of guidelines. The Spiritual Direction Forum UK, offers them in support of good practice. It does not take responsibility for the practice from individuals or groups/networks of spiritual directors, and cannot guarantee that using these documents will ensure that individuals or groups will satisfy legal safeguarding obligations.
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