Yes, and all are required to complete Level 1 Safeguarding training as a minimum. 

We’ll have a chat with you first to see what you’d prefer us to do.  We’re happy to come and get you from the service if we cannot comfort your child. 

We would come and get you from the service.  We have first-aid trained people in the church from basic first aid right up to advanced nursing level.  We make a record of all accidents in our Accident Book. 

Yes. Every child is welcome to come along to our Kids Church.   Several of our leaders and others from the church have experience and training with additional needs.   Please discuss any individual requirements with Michelle or your group leader and include them on the welcome form.  We aim to make our sessions accessible to all, but please let us know if we can do better.  

Yes.  We’re happy for you to stay while your child settles – even if that’s the whole session – or for you to pop your head around the door (if it’s creche, you can see through the glass panels so you could always sit at the back to keep an eye on).  Whatever works for you and your child. 

We promote positive behaviour through fun, engaging sessions and incentives like stickers.  We also make our expectations clear around behaviour (there really aren’t that many!) and attempt to deal with any disruptive behaviour early on by working out what the problem is (it is rarely just disruptive for the sake of it), giving reminders about what we expect and providing some one-to-one time with one of the leaders where possible to chat things through where appropriate.  It helps if you can let us know of any potential issues before the session starts so we can do our best to prevent issues for your child.  If a child is particularly disruptive we may need to come and get you from the service.  The safety of all the children in the session remains our priority. 

Yes, but you will need to complete a registration form and provide contact details and the name and description of who will collect them if not yourself.  You will need to make sure someone will be available to collect them at the end of the service, unless they are able to walk home by themselves (we will need to know this beforehand).  We recommend that you attend with your child the first time.    If your child would like to come to kids church but you can’t make it, please contact us and we’ll see if we can help.