Section outline

  • Ten units | Approximately one hundred minutes | Followed by the Module 4 quiz

    What this module is about

    This is the longest module in the course and the one most likely to change what you actually do. Modules 1 to 3 were about understanding. This one is about behaviour: the ordinary decisions of an ordinary week, made differently. Almost all of it is unglamorous, and almost all of the harm that gets prevented in the world is prevented here rather than by anybody's heroism after the fact.

    Some of it will read as restrictive. Two things are worth saying in advance. The rules are not aimed at you; they are aimed at the situation. And they protect you at least as much as anyone, because a minister who works visibly, keeps records, and uses accountable channels is very hard to accuse falsely.

    By the end of this module, you will be able to:

    • Explain a boundary as set by the role rather than negotiated, and describe the drift sequence.
    • Apply the two-person principle as observability rather than a second body in the room.
    • Conduct a pastoral conversation that is arranged, sited, time-bounded, and noted.
    • Visit deliberately: tell somebody, stay in the main room, decline the key, record the exception.
    • Recognise practical kindness as the commonest route to access, and spread help rather than reduce it.
    • Plan a residential with ratios, checks for everybody, and a rule about late-night conversations.
    • Keep digital contact accountable, durable, and appropriate, and set contactable hours.
    • Handle images, recordings, and livestreams for the people least able to say why it matters.
    • Test any financial arrangement by whether it would survive being written down.
    • Apply safer recruitment without mistaking a clear check for a clearance.

    Sources

    Source tables identify the material that supports the teaching. Where a table uses the key, ✓ means that teaching drawn from the source forms part of the assessed content; ✕ identifies optional further reading, which is not assessed directly. You are not required to read every linked external resource in full.

    Assessment

    Twenty questions drawn at random from a bank of sixty, twenty-five minutes, eighty per cent to pass, two attempts, highest grade. It covers this module only.

    Before you move on

    • All ten units marked as done.
    • Your contactable hours and the two sentences for a young person who messages privately written into the companion workbook.
    • The Module 4 quiz passed.
    • Unit 4.1 — Boundaries: what they are, and who they protect Page
    • Unit 4.2 — Visibility and the two-person principle Page
    • Unit 4.3 — Pastoral conversations and one-to-one work Page
    • Unit 4.4 — Home, hospital, prison, and private visits Page
    • Unit 4.5 — Transport, hospitality, and the risks hidden inside helpfulness Page
    • Unit 4.6 — Events, retreats, camps, and overnight activity Page
    • Unit 4.7 — Digital boundaries: messaging, platforms, and availability Page
    • Unit 4.8 — Photographs, recordings, livestreams, and consent Page
    • Unit 4.9 — Money, gifts, dependency, and secrecy Page
    • Unit 4.10 — Safer recruitment and the prevention mindset Page
    • Module 4 Quiz — Safer practice and prevention