Understanding and respecting boundaries is absolutely critical to healthy ministry.

We are committed to ensuring that boundaries training is available to all licence and office holders (lay and ordained) as well as PTO holders.

​How does this affect me?

​Ecclesiastical Office Holder

Anyone who hold the Bishop’s licence as a deacon or priest must com­plete the first three Min­istry Stand­ards as well as the accom­pa­ny­ing quizzes.

​Licensed Lay Ministers

​LLM’s must com­plete the first three Min­istry Stand­ards as well as the accom­pa­ny­ing quizzes.

​Permission to Officiate (PTO)

Anyone who has a PTO is required to com­plete the first two Min­istry Stand­ards as well as the accom­pa­ny­ing quizzes. A PTO is not an eccle­si­ast­ical office and it is not a licence.

​Office Holders

​All Vestry members, Synod Rep­res­ent­at­ives, Treas­ur­ers, Wardens, Canons and anyone who holds a letter of author­ity, are required to com­plete the first two Min­istry Stand­ards as well as the accom­pa­ny­ing quizzes. This is because all those who have signed the Declar­a­tions of Assent are subject to Canon D, Titles I-VI.

Why is there a quiz?

The new Title D legis­la­tion (con­cern­ing the beha­vi­oural stand­ards of clergy and office bearers along with the process for any poten­tial breach of such stand­ards) states that the Min­istry Stand­ards Com­mis­sion will “audit the approach of Epis­copal Units of this Church to the train­ing and mon­it­or­ing of Min­is­ters” (II.5.(d)).
If you are required to com­plete a Min­istry Stand­ard train­ing unit, you will also need to com­plete the accom­pa­ny­ing quiz. In order to ‘pass’ you will need to achieve a grade of 80% or higher. This will help demon­strate to the Min­istry Stand­ards Com­mis­sion our serious com­mit­ment to the care of vul­ner­able people and the pro­mo­tion of healthy behaviours.

Complaints

If you have exper­i­enced any sort of abuse, bul­ly­ing, or inap­pro­pri­ate beha­viour by someone in an Anglican Church and wish to lay a com­plaint, or want to know more about the stand­ards that those in Anglican min­istry are required to uphold, you can find out more on our Safe­guard­ing and Com­plaints page of our website.