STATEMENT / Lead safeguarding Bishop responds to BBC Panorama programme.

STATEMENT / BBC Panorama this Monday (April 29) will feature interviews with survivors of church-related abuse in a programme entitled 'Scandal in the Church of England'.

Following the recommendations made in IICSA’s investigation report into child migration programmes, published in March 2018, the National Safeguarding Team is now in dialogue with, on behalf of the Church of England, the Child Migrants Trust, an independent charity which supports child migrants and their families nationally and internationally. We await the UK government’s response to the IICSA’s recommendations. 

The BBC has confirmed it is screening a documentary on the Peter Ball case.

The Church of England is investing in a ground-breaking programme of safeguarding training and resources, created especially for children and young people.

A statement from the Church of England on IICSA’s Child Migration Report.

NEWS / Bishop of Bath and Wells, Peter Hancock, the Church of England's lead safeguarding bishop.

The accounts of abuse shared at IICSA’s Child Migration hearing were harrowing and we commend the bravery of those former child migrants who came forward to share their experiences at the Inquiry.

NEWS / Statement from National Safeguarding Adviser.

The Church of England has today published its detailed responses to the recommendations of the IICSA report from October.