Bishop of Stepney: ‘My fury when safeguarding is done badly’
by Francis Martin, Church Times:
Dr Grenfell, the Church’s new lead bishop for safeguarding, talks to Francis Martin.
PERSISTING with the Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) was not in the “best interests of independence or scrutiny or survivors”, the lead bishop for safeguarding, Dr Joanne Grenfell, said on Monday.
Speaking in her first interview since assuming the safeguarding brief in April, Dr Grenfell, who is Area Bishop of Stepney, in east London, could not give a timeframe for when fully independent oversight might be put in place.
“I want us to do it well, not just quickly. . . I think institutionally, in governance terms and culture terms, we have got a long way to go.”
On 21 June, it was announced that Jasvinder Sanghera and Steve Reeves, two of the three members of the ISB, were being sacked (News, 21 June).
In an interview at London Diocesan House on Monday afternoon, Dr Grenfell reiterated the line taken by the Archbishops’ Council and the Archbishop of York, who blamed a breakdown of relationships for the board’s disbanding.
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