Responses to Professor Jay’s church safeguarding report sought

Mar 26, 2024 by

by Francis Martin, Church Times: A SURVEY has been launched to gauge responses to Professor Alexis Jay’s report on the future of safeguarding in the Church of England. The survey was put online on Thursday, and will close on 18 April....

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Church of England General Synod debates safeguarding next steps

Feb 26, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, Christian Today: Divisions have surfaced at the General Synod meeting in Westminster over the urgency of bringing forward legislation on independent safeguarding for the Church of England. Members debated the future of...

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‘Post Office heads are the Church of England leadership at prayer’ says survivor advocate

Jan 8, 2024 by

by Donna Birrell, Premier: The battle of Post Office staff to get justice is similar to the plight of survivors of church-related abuse when they’ve tried to hold the Church to account. That’s according to Martin Sewell, an...

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Safeguarding: When Good Reviews Go Bad

Jan 8, 2024 by

by Andrew Graystone, Via Media: There have now been seven public reviews of the activities of John Smyth – or eight if you count my own book, Bleeding for Jesus. The first was Operation Cubic, which was conducted by Hampshire Police, and...

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Review into Church of England’s Independent Safeguarding Board finds serious flaws

Dec 12, 2023 by

from Christian Today: A leading barrister has published her report on the first phase of the Church of England’s Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB). Sarah Wilkinson, from Blackstone Chambers, was asked by the Archbishops’...

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We don’t know, but consider religious freedom, says C of E response on exceptions to mandatory reporting

Sep 21, 2023 by

by Hattie Williams, Church Times: THE Church of England safeguarding bodies’ response has been given to the government consultation on mandatory reporting of child abuse — without being clear whether it supports any religious exceptions,...

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