St Katharine’s has become the first church in the Manchester diocese to be accredited the new Child Friendly Church Award! The award was presented by Steve Dixon, the Diocesan Children’s Officer during a service at St Katharine’s in July.

The Child Friendly Church Award originated in the Liverpool Diocese and is a scheme that is being taken up by an increasing number of dioceses across the country. Any church which meets the criteria for receiving the Award is given a Child Friendly Church logo to display on its notice board. The intention is that families visiting or moving to a new area and looking for a church that would welcome their children will be attracted by the logo.

To receive this award, a parish must meet a set of criteria relating to provision in child protection, premises, training, leadership, nurture, worship, inclusion, vision and outreach.

In order that there can be consistency across the country, each participating diocese has adopted a similar set of criteria for giving the Award. In this way, visitors seeing the Child Friendly logo on a church noticeboard should be assured of a standard of quality in the value placed on children there.

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