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About the Safe Church Training Agreement (SCTA)
The SCTA is a service offered by the NCCA which facilitated quality Safe Church (i.e. duty of care, child protection, good leadership practice, safe leaders, and safe programs) awareness training in Australian Churches. The SCTA is not a product, but rather a mechanism to facilitate Safe Church training.
To ensure high quality training, a set of National Standards for Safe Church Programs has been developed. These standards are used to endorse the programs and the process for training workshop presenters.
Given the ongoing nature of training, all persons who attend SCTA Safe Church Workshops will be entered into the web based resource Safety Management Online, provided by ChildSafe™, an already widely used on-line system for risk management. This training information system will provide information about when and what type of training people have attended in Australia.
A SCTA unit has been established with the function of facilitating the endorsement process, communication of course times and dates, liaison with Members, updating Members on legislative changes, and general administration of the SCTA.
The SCTA recognises that many Christian organisations (churches) already have their own training programs. The SCTA is not seeking to replace these. It is not a program in itself, rather it seeks to utilise the good work done by these groups by facilitating the sharing of their resources across the wider Christian community.
The SCTA is also designed to augment existing programs by facilitating their implementation, ensuring that training programs are of a good quality, and by providing a combined approach resulting in more opportunities for training. Furthermore, it will assist churches that are still developing policies and/or cannot meet training requirements for their organisation internally.
In 2009 the SCTA will be facilitating workshops in NSW, ACT, Queensland and WA.
Our hope is that by 2011 we are able to offer the service to all states and Territories.