NEWS / Archbishop Commissions Independent Review of Peter Ball Case

NEWS / A transcript of the oral closing submission from the Archbishops' Council for the Peter Ball case study as part if the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) on 27 July 2018.

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

Statements from Bishop Stephen, Archbishop Justin and the National Safeguarding Team.

NEWS / The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced the appointment of Dame Moira Gibb to be chair of the independent review into the way the Church of England responded to the case of Peter Ball, the former Bishop of Gloucester, who was jailed last year for sex offences.

New working group will bring together theologians, Church leaders and safeguarding professionals.

NEWS / The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s (IICSA) next preliminary hearing into the Anglican church investigation will be heard on Tuesday January 30.

NEWS / Details of the independent review into the Church of England’s handling of allegations against the late John Smyth QC have been published today.

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 final stages for publishing a National Register of Clergy, to strengthen safeguarding in the Church of England, are now underway.