I am aware of more safeguarding failures and poor safeguarding judgments by Stephen Cottrell. And if anybody thinks the Church of England will be a safer place with him as the sole Metropolitan has to think again.
Do the Archbishops’ Council understand what they’r letting themselves in for by appointing Nazir Afzal as National Safeguarding Panel chair?
The Archbishops’ Council and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York said that they’ll address concerns raised in a two-year investigation by BBC’s religion editor, Aleem Maqbool, through the draft Clergy Conduct Measure and new Clergy Risk Assessment Regulations. But both pieces of legislation progressed through the General Synod last month without anything in them to address an issue which, in February 2023, Synod was told needed to be addressed urgently.
To ensure continuing secrecy of Church of England tribunals, the Archbishops’ Council falsely states that GMC hearings are held in private.
If someone makes a public apology for “speaking incorrectly” but mis-states what actually happened when they did so, is the apology genuine?
Bishops want to continue running the Church’s safeguarding; while victims and their advocates want it taken out of bishops’ hands.
Are PCC members, as charity trustees, taking “reasonable steps to protect people from harm” if they take out insurance with Ecclesiastical?
Speaking to the General Synod in July 2023, after he and the other members of the Archbishops’ Council’s so-called “Independent” Safeguarding Board were unceremoniously sacked,…
The outline agenda for the July group of sessions of the General Synod in York contains a shock announcement about plans for the Church of…
Later today (Saturday, 24 February), members of the General Synod will debate the report by barrister Sarah Wilkinson, into the collapse of the “‘Independent’ Safeguarding…