Mental Health and Safeguarding

 

Video on one church’s experience

In this film Josh Kane, Baptist Minister at Mill Hill East Baptist Church and Regional Minister for London Baptists, talks about mental health and what his church has put in place to support the whole community with being mentally healthy. 

Josh describes how his church has a high number of vulnerable adults. In the context of safeguarding, churches have an additional responsibility to people in their community who are vulnerable. The legislation (Care Act 2014) now uses the terminology of ‘adults at risk’ and, whilst not everyone who is vulnerable because of their mental health needs will meet the legal definition of an adult at risk, churches have a duty to care for the welfare and wellbeing of adults with care and support needs and to do their best to safeguard them from abuse or neglect.