Concerns substantiated in Mike Pilavachi investigation - update from joint internal Church investigation by the National Safeguarding Team and diocese of St Albans

The Church has a duty to challenge wider society but also to listen and be challenged by it, says the Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines

Awards of nearly £13 million have been made for dioceses to help churches reach more children, young people and families, from toddler groups to apprentice youth ministers, in the latest round of grants for mission from the Church of England.

Ven Paul Davies, currently Archdeacon of Surrey, is to be the next Bishop of Dorking

Motion from Blackburn Diocese carried forward by Synod

Recommendations would reduce the number of National Church Institutions

The General Synod has backed a call for more churches to join partnerships to help resettle and rehabilitate people leaving prison, in a debate led by the National Faith Lead for the Probation Service.

The Church Commissioners and the Church of England Pensions Board have announced that they will independently disinvest from fossil fuels.

The Venerable Adam Atkinson is to be the new Bishop of Bradwell in the Diocese of Chelmsford.

Apprentice youth workers, youth ministers, children and families workers and chaplaincy aimed at students in further education are to be funded as part of major awards to dioceses announced by the Church of England.