# Church Abuse: Highlight continuing safeguarding failures by the Church of England and its Archbishops’ Council

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## Posts
- [Safeguarding “direction of travel” is not a destination](https://churchabuse.uk/2026/03/03/safeguarding-direction-of-travel-is-not-a-destination/): Nearly three years after sacking its “Independent” Safeguarding Board, the Church of England is still talking about “direction of travel”\. Praises for “excellent” staff sit alongside admissions of mistrust\. Survivors need dates, duties and deliverables — not delay dressed up as reform\.
- [Parliament is being asked to approve a disciplinary system it is not allowed to see](https://churchabuse.uk/2026/03/02/parliament-is-being-asked-to-approve-a-disciplinary-system-it-is-not-allowed-to-see/): Parliament is being asked to approve the new Clergy Conduct Measure without seeing the rules that will make it work in practice\. “Public hearings” sound like progress — but what does “public” really mean? My new briefing examines the constitutional risks\.
- [40 years on from the Ealing vicarage attack, Jill Saward’s ‘Rape My Story’ republished with new foreword and afterword](https://churchabuse.uk/2026/03/01/40-years-on-from-the-ealing-vicarage-attack-jill-sawards-rape-my-story-republished-with-new-foreword-and-afterword/)
- [Why does the Church of England describe child abuse as an “intimate sexual relationship”?](https://churchabuse.uk/2026/02/17/why-does-the-church-of-england-describe-child-abuse-as-an-intimate-sexual-relationship/): When a 15\-year\-old’s abuse is framed as an “intimate sexual relationship”, language becomes part of the problem\. This post examines how the Clergy Discipline system describes child sexual exploitation — and why words used by its gatekeepers matter\.
- [The real Clergy Conduct Measure is still behind the curtain](https://churchabuse.uk/2026/02/11/the-real-clergy-conduct-measure-is-still-behind-the-curtain/): Synod has reversed the presumption of private hearings in the Clergy Conduct Measure\. But the deeper issue remains: most of the system’s real operation will sit in unpublished Rules\. Parliament is being asked to approve a framework without seeing how it will work in practice\.

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