In recent years I have seen the appalling treatment of a victim and the way in which she was ground down first by her diocese and then by the National Safeguarding Team and [...]

A motion to force a General Synod debate on a report of the Archbishops' Council's decision to abolish the Independent Safeguarding Board was ruled "out of order" - but a second motion, linked to the Annual Report of teh Archbishops' Council and expressing the same points as the first, has now been accepted. [...]

A motion has been tabled for this weekend's Generfal Synod meeting in York, calling on the Archbishops’ Council, working with its Audit Committee, to commission an independent inquiry led by a senior lawyer (judge or King’s Counsel) into the safeguarding bodies, functions, policies and practice in and of the Church of England, to report within a maximum period of 12 months, and for a subsequent debate by the Synod to enable it to make decisions about future safeguarding in the Church of England. [...]