Contacts and links

Official Bodies

Each of these bodies has a particular role in ensuring Safeguarding happens (child protection and the protection of vulnerable people). Please visit their websites for more information

• Central Registered Body in Scotland (CRBS) www.crbs.org.uk
• Charity Commission for England and Wales www.charity-commission.gov.uk in particular Protecting children in your organisation (offsite link - new window)
• Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) www.crb.homeoffice.gov.uk especially completing the application form (offsite link - new window) 
• Disclosure Scotland www.disclosurescotland.co.uk especially Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme (offsite link - new window)
• Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) www.isa-gov.org.uk/
• Churches’ Agency for Safeguarding (CAS) www.churchsafe.org.uk
  25 Marylebone Road
  London NW1 5JR
  020 7467 5216
  Email: cas@methodistchurch.org.uk
• Churches’ Child Protection Advisory Service (CCPAS) www.ccpas.co.uk
  PO Box 133
  Swanley Kent BR8 7UQ
  0845 120 4550
  Email info@ccpas.co.uk

Friends House contacts - obtaining forms and Quaker queries

Meetings needing to receive a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) or Disclosure Scotland forms should contact Philip Iddon. He will send them out with the necessary CAS forms Philip Iddon
Quaker Life
Friends House
173 Euston Road
London NW1 2BJ
Tel: 020 7663 1029
philipi@quaker.org.uk

Please do not keep a supply of forms. One or two spare will be more than enough.

To report an additional verifier, and receive guidance notes for verifiers, or for Quaker specific queries contact:

Michael S Booth
Quaker Life
Friends House
173 Euston Road
London NW1 2BJ
Tel: 020 7663 1023
michaelsb@quaker.org.uk

General safeguarding queries

CCPAS (seeabove) or other organisation if your Area Meeting does not belong to the CCPAS.

Queries on completing forms

CAS or the CRB or Disclosure Scotland (see above).