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The Church of England on Tuesday will take the first step towards overhauling its safeguarding system to make it independent of the religious institution, seeking to restore confidence following ...
A new independent safeguarding approach for the Church of England would not be fully in place for at least another two years, proposals due to be presented next month confirm. The General Synod ...
Dr Percy also criticised the church's apologies which he said were a “disingenuous public relations exercise, designed to cover-up institutional mistakes and flaws.” [16] [17] In December 2018, William Nye, the Secretary General of the Church of England Synod, announced a new appointment of Director of Safeguarding. This new role will be ...
In September 2021, she was appointed chair of the Church of England's Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB), [12] newly created to provide independent oversight of safeguarding work throughout the national church, covering historical and current concerns. The ISB began working in January 2022.
In November 2020, IICSA published a 144-page report, Safeguarding in the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, [52] which said that the Catholic Church of England and Wales "swept under the carpet" allegations of sex abuse by many individuals, including priests, monks and volunteers, in England and Wales. [53]
This is a list of Church of England measures, which are the legislation of the Church of England. Some of these measures may have been repealed. Since 1970, measures have been made by the General Synod; prior to then they were made by its predecessor, the Church Assembly. Under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c.
An alliance of church leaders threatened to split from the Church of England over plans to let gay couples hold standalone services in churches, saying it would be a departure from the institution ...
The report, seen by Channel 4, found the church "fell short on a number of basic standards of complaint handling” and delivered damning findings about the Bishop of Birmingham's response in 2011. It said he “lacked adequate knowledge of safeguarding and the capacity to manage the process".