Response to Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) recommendations from the National Safeguarding Steering Group, the House of Bishops and the Archbishops’ Council.

Read our stakeholder newsletter following the launch of the Commission’s final report - ‘Care and Support Reimagined: a National Care Covenant for England’ at Friends House on 24 January 2023.

The Church of England and the Methodist Church in Britain are to consider proposals that would bring them into a new relationship of full communion, after a period of some 200 years of formal separation.

The Covenant for Clergy Care and Wellbeing was made an Act of Synod at the February 2020 Group of Sessions of the General Synod. The Covenant is the expressed view of the mind of the Church of England on issues relating to clergy care and wellbeing.

Plans for a new deal between clergy and the wider Church of England - modelled on the ideas behind the Military Covenant - have taken a step forward after a panel was established to begin drafting.

NSSG report from May and March 2022

Information about the implementation of the Cathedrals Working Group report approved by General Synod in 2018

NEWS / Credit union branches in churches, a network of savings clubs in schools and a drive to promote greater financial resilience in communities are just a few of the achievements listed by the Archbishop of Canterbury's Task Group on responsible credit and savings in its final report published today.

The Church of England’s CDM Working Group has published a progress report acknowledging the hurt experienced by many under the CDM process, and recommending that the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 is replaced with a new piece of legislation.