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Former Church of England school chaplain Bernard Randall has settled his long-running legal dispute over a sermon delivered at a private school. An independent Church safeguarding review has concluded there are no ongoing safeguarding concerns relating to him.
Randall, 53, became the subject of a high-profile legal battle after preaching at Trent College in Derbyshire in 2019, in which he encouraged pupils to question gender identity teaching following a visit by the campaign group Educate and Celebrate.
He was subsequently reported to the Government’s anti-extremism Prevent programme, later left the school, and was refused Permission to Officiate by the Diocese of Derby, while a Church of England safeguarding process remained unresolved.
The Christian Legal Centre, which has represented Randall throughout the case, said the independent review commissioned by the Church has now found that allegations arising from the sermon were “unsubstantiated”.
The review by an independent investigator for the Diocese of London concluded: “After full consideration and review of the available information I cannot establish, on the balance of probabilities, that harm was caused by the delivery of the sermons. This allegation is therefore unsubstantiated.”
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