Victims’ groups had urged the church’s General Synod to back a proposal for all church safeguarding officers to report to a new independent body. But the Synod voted for another option that ...

Victims' groups had urged the church's General Synod to back a proposal for all church safeguarding officers to report to a new independent body. But the Synod voted for another option that would ...

“The longer it takes to hear a case, the higher the risk of fatigue on the part of the victim, who could succumb to bribes to settle,” Bermido said. He noted that even in non-Church sex abuse cases ...

The Church of England's failure to adopt a fully independent safeguarding model was a missed opportunity to make clear it has listened to victims, the bishop tasked with leading on the issue has said.

The Church of England's failure to adopt a fully independent safeguarding model was a missed opportunity to make clear it has listened to victims, the bishop tasked with leading on the issue has said.

He told the PA news agency: “Many of the leaders of the Church of England are still woefully unaware of what abuse is, and what it does to victims. It is no longer credible for the Archbishop to ...

Representatives of survivors branded the outcome a “punch in the gut” for victims of abuse and said it showed the Church had decided to “keep it in the family”. Ms Grenfell told the BBC ...