From 2021, each diocese had the option of adding some extra dashboard lights relating to:

• Learning and Development
• Safer Recruitment and People Management

These extra lights are no longer needed, and were removed from parish dashboards on 1 May 2025.

This change has affected the progress score for some dashboards.
 

Learning and Development

This only applies to parish dashboards in the following dioceses: Birmingham, Blackburn, Bristol, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Chester, Coventry, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Guildford, Hereford, Leeds, Leicester, London, Norwich, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southwell & Nottingham, St Albans, Suffolk, and Truro.

From 2021, each diocese had the option of adding some experimental dashboard lights relating to learning and development.

These lights asked parishes to enter the number of people who needed to undertake safeguarding training, and also the number of people who had actually completed it.  The aim was to help a diocesan safeguarding team to estimate the number of people who needed to be trained across the entire diocese.

Unfortunately, these experimental lights proved to be less useful than we had hoped, and they were removed from parish dashboards on 1 May 2025.
 

Safer Recruitment and People Management

This only applies to parish dashboards in the following dioceses: Bath & Wells, Blackburn, Bristol, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Chester, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool, London, Norwich, Oxford, Portsmouth, Rochester, Salisbury, Sheffield, Sodor & Man, St Albans, Truro, Winchester, and Worcester.

From 2021, each diocese had the option of adding an extra dashboard light relating to safer recruitment and people management.

This light asked parishes to say which sections of the Safer Recruitment and People Management Guidance  they were currently complying with.  The aim was to raise awareness of the new guidance that came into force in January 2022.

This extra light had served its purpose in raising awareness of the Safer Recruitment and People Management Guidance, and it was removed from parish dashboards on 1 May 2025.