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COMMENT / Throughout the year churches across the country open their doors to people of all ages, for services, weekday clubs and vital community projects.
The final stages for publishing a National Register of Clergy, to strengthen safeguarding in the Church of England, are now underway.
The Revd Lynda Davies, Rector of All Saints Cottenham, in Ely Diocese has been appointed to the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Panel as a parish clergy member.
A new service providing vital support for survivors of church-related abuse has become operational.
General Synod voted today to acknowledge and apologise for past safeguarding wrongs. It also voted to endorse work on legislative and non-legislative changes to tighten procedures which have been identified following the Chichester Commissaries interim and final safeguarding reports.
The Church of England’s interim support scheme is part of the Church’s recognition that harm has been caused by both that abuse itself, and the Church’s responses to survivors.
Safe Spaces, the independent support service for survivors of Church-related abuse, run by the charity Victim Support, marks its first anniversary this week.
General Synod votes to enact IICSA recommendation on Diocesan Safeguarding Officers
The Church of England is supporting this year’s Safeguarding Sunday, 10 October 2021.
Support for victims and survivors of church-related abuse to continue long term with new independent provider First Light