The Churches' Child Protection Advisory Service (CCPAS) will use the two-year funding to produce a DVD in eight languages that promotes safeguarding standards in places of worship.
The charity said that: "some cultural and religious practices, combined with poor safeguarding procedures, have placed children at risk of significant harm." It said it was hard for statutory and voluntary agencies to be sure these groups effectively protect the children in their care.
CCPAS, which has a 24-hour helpline, will support groups to help them implement the standards. David Pearson, chief executive officer at the charity, said the funding was "the latest stage of a broader strategy to reach non-English speaking members of the faith community, one that has been worked out full in consultation with the children's minister and other statutory and voluntary agencies."
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