Safe Messaging gives the leaders you authorise a safe, accountable way to encourage children and young people through the week. A parent or guardian approves every message before it is delivered, whether it started as a chat message, a mailing, a Broadcast or a text. Your named Safeguarding Lead can see all of them.
| Everything you need to do to switch Safe Messaging on for your church, in the right order, with a link to the detailed guide for each step. |
| Safe Messaging lets authorised leaders encourage children through the week, with a parent approving every message and your Safeguarding Lead overseeing all of them. Here is the whole picture in one place. |
| A message cannot reach a child without a contactable guardian to approve it, so getting your family records right is the first job. Here is what Safe Messaging needs, and how to find the gaps. |
| Safe Messaging lets the leaders you authorise send messages to children, with a parent or guardian approving every message first. Here is how to switch it on. |
| Four settings control how Safe Messaging behaves: how long a parent has to approve, how many messages a leader can send a child, whether children can reply, and whether under-13s can log in. |
| Nobody can message a child until you give them Safe Messaging permission, which is set per person on the Site Administrators page. |
| For leaders. Messaging a child works like any other conversation, with one difference: the message is held until their parent or guardian approves it. |
| What the approval step actually looks like from the parent's side, so you can explain it to families and help when something is not arriving. |
| The Safeguarding Dashboard gives your Safeguarding Lead a single view of what needs attention: messages to review, rejected approvals, children without a contactable guardian, and more. |
| Every message sent to a child is kept in the Safe Messages record, whether it was approved, rejected or expired. Here is how to read it and mark items as reviewed. |
| Children cannot reply unless your church allows it. If you do allow it, every reply goes to a parent for approval too, and a child can never start a conversation. |
| Written for parents. If your church uses Safe Messaging, you read and approve every message before your child sees it. Here is how it works and what you can expect. |
| Safe Messaging is a tool that sits under your existing safeguarding policy. Here is what it does, what it deliberately does not do, and what your church still needs to decide. |
| Usually one of six things: your permission, the site setting, your group, the child's date of birth, their guardian, or the weekly limit. |