Safeguarding of children and vulnerable

The need of vigilance never lessens; in these times of stress it has proved even more necessary than before. The national Independent Investigation of Dr Jay is still on course to publish its findings of the extent of sexual abuse in our national institutions, notably our churches, sometime in the late summer. Meantime our bishops have commissioned Ian Elliott, a man of long and wide experience of the management of the problem to review our church’s practice. His interim report is not flattering.