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Author: Anglican Consultative Council (The)
Year Published: 2019
Detailed guidelines for "safe church practices"
Created on 03 Aug 2022
Last updated on 03 Aug 2022
Moderated on 31 Aug 2022
In 2019, the Anglican Consultative Council adopted these guidelines in pursuit of the objective of making every Church a safe place for all.
At the Lambeth Conference in 2022, Bishops agreed to take forward a Lambeth Call on Safe Church and recommitted to making the safety of all people in the provinces of the Anglican Communion a priority of their focus. They made this public commitment following a plenary session on Safe Church, which included a presentation from a survivor and interviews with the Archbishops of Canterbury and Cape Town.
This document will therefore, in due course, become policy within the Church of England.
The guidelines discuss:
- Provision of support where there is abuse
- Effective responses
- Adopting and promoting standards
- Assessing suitability for ministry
- Promoting a culture of safety
They also contain in Schedule 1 clear definitions of what constitutes abuse including clear definitions of what would constitute bullying behaviour.
They make clear that the Guidelines apply to both clergy and lay workers.
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