New "Safe Church" page and coordinator role

We're excited to share that we've just added a new Safe Church page to Church Social, along with a new dedicated Safe church coordinator role, to help make managing background checks and other abuse prevention information easier.

Previously, tracking background check information (such as criminal record checks and reference checks) was done from the edit person page, and access to this data required the administrator or statistician role. This often meant giving more access than necessary to the person responsible for tracking this information.

To improve this, the new Safe Church page — found in the People section — provides a dedicated interface for managing:

• Criminal record checks
• Working With Children Check numbers and expiry dates (for Australian churches)
• Reference checks
• A new "Training date" field
• A new "Safe Church notes" field for other abuse prevention-related information

This page is accessible to users with the new Safe church coordinator role, as well as to administrators and statisticians.

In addition, expiring background check email notifications are now sent to Safe church coordinators instead of administrators. If you're an administrator and would still like to receive these emails, simply add yourself as a safe church coordinator on the People settings page.

The new Safe Church page has been enabled by default for churches that had previously entered any background check information. If it's disabled for your church and you'd like to enable it, you can do so from the People settings page.