Statements regarding BBC File on Four Blackburn Cathedral case
 

General Synod has voted to approve the Safeguarding and Learning Development Framework as a Code of Practice which sets out details of the Church’s safeguarding learning pathways, for the next three years.

The independent report into the Church's handling of its 2007-9 Past Cases Review, PCR, has been published today.

Work is underway in all 42 dioceses on the Church of England's Past Cases Review 2 (PCR2) with a key focus on listening to survivors who want to come forward. The Church was criticised for not including their voices in the original PCR 2007/8 as shown in an independent scrutiny report, published in 2018.

NEWS / Statement on the sentencing of Peter Ball.

Read the opening statement on behalf of the Archbishops’ Council as part of the IICSA hearing into Peter Ball.

NEWS / Statement from National Safeguarding Adviser.

NEWS / Archbishop Commissions Independent Review of Peter Ball Case

Following the conviction of Robert Bailey last year and criticism of the reference supplied by the Bishop of Carlisle, James Newcome, the National Safeguarding Team, NST, carried out an investigation into the bishop’s conduct according to House of Bishops guidelines.

STATEMENT / Statement issued by the National Safeguarding Team.