Comments on: An open memo to all members of the General Synod

By: Simon Gell

Simon Gell — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:22:37 +0000

To ‘Name Witheld’:
Do you now feel able to share whether or not your review did start in March 2024 as you had hoped in February?

By: Name Witheld

Name Witheld — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:49:11 +0000

Gavin, regarding the so called ISB 11 the problem is a use of language rather than untruths. I am one of the people who was granted an ISB review and have accepted and am working with Kevin Crompton on that. Though publicity makes me feel I have to justify my reasons for my choices I don’t intend to. It is true that there are delays regarding data sharing because following the Wilkinson report it was recognised that far more robust structures had to be put in place which agreeably has taken time. I am hopeful my review will begin in March. Given that in the ‘Synod questions’ numbers state 10 not 11 it is impossible, given GDPR, to know whether there are more with reviews about to commence. The language used therefore needs to be “11 (10) people from those granted ISB reviews ….” rather than the language that is currently being used on both sides now. Hope that clarifies the situation.

By: David Rees

David Rees — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:41:23 +0000

Dear Gavin
Bring this whole issue with the many people who support and admire you for this work to the attention of the following people on the Ecclesiastical Committee of the House of Commons asking if they would support you in the ‘public realm’ or on the ‘floor of the House’: Jim Shannon MP, Sir Stephen Timms MP, David Lammy MP, Andrew Selous MP. Chris Loder MP and Sir Garry Streeter MP {chair of Christians in Parliament} may also help and are all Christians.
We all – individually and collectively – cry out for justice. We want to live in a society where justice is done. The Lord is a God of justice……It’s through his people, reflecting his character and his priorities, that he reveals this. The AB’s Council is I believe a Charity, consider with others raising all the issues in your article with the Charity Commission asking them to investigate with evidence your concerns re- their Legal responsibility for safeguarding in the National Church Institutions. Please feel free to come back to me, many thanks

By: Patricia Lyon

Patricia Lyon — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:11:47 +0000

Thank you Gavin for this. Would you send a copy to the Future of Safeguarding email address please. The inbox is not regularly monitored now but I think it will be seen. My hope is that Alexis Jay and team will include in their report that recommendations are taken or left but not cherry picked from because that will then no longer be the report they authored and I am quite sure once the church has finished with it she will not want to be linked to it in any way!

By: editor

editor — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:41:32 +0000

In reply to Simon Gell. Thank you, Simon. I am in touch with some members of the Synod and we are working out a way to distribute this to Synod members.

By: Simon Gell

Simon Gell — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:37:42 +0000

At the risk of asking a really basic question, can arrangements be made for every member of GS to receive an individual hard copy of this very important memo?

Then I would (naively) hope that each member of GS is personally accountable to their electorate, and to the communicant members of their Diocese (as appropriate), for their own individual response and behaviour, beginning with Feb 24 General Synod.
Collectively they all utterly ignored the Feb 2018 equivalent: ‘We asked for Bread but you gave us Stones’, so hopes are not high.