• Christ our Refuge leaders provide formal supervision for children/youth who are participants of the child/youth ministry programs during program times. At the end of the designated program time parents/guardians are again to provide formal supervision of their children/youth.
• The written consent of a parent/guardian will be obtained if a program activity is to involve a child/youth leaving the venue/program space and or if a leader is to provide transportation to a child/youth as part of the ministry program;
• Parents will be kept informed of the relevant details for the ministry program, including the place and timing of any program events and the contact details for the head program leader;
• Leaders will not administer medications to a child/youth without the written consent of a parent/guardian. However leaders will administer basic first aid as necessary.
• Leaders are not to supervise the toileting of children as part of programs at Christ our Refuge. For young children in the Sunday creche/preschool program, parents/guardians will be contacted to toilet their child appropriately. During that time the child will no longer be the supervision responsibility of the leaders.
• When Sunday child/youth programs are run at the 87 Webster Road Stafford church venue, children/youth are to be directed to use the three uni-sex individual toilet rooms that are directly accessed from the main church hallway.
• Children aged in school years prep-5 will be permitted to use the toilet during the Sunday children’s ministry program times whilst being monitored by a leader from the adjacent main foyer space. If a long time passes, a leader should attend to the toilets to ensure the children are safe.
• Children aged school years 6-12 will be permitted to use the toilet during a the Sunday youth program without a leader monitoring them. If a long time passes, a leader should attend to the toilets to ensure the children are safe.
