JERSEY
BBC News
The Anglican Dean of Jersey has been suspended over concerns about his handling of a parishioner’s complaint.
The Bishop of Winchester earlier withdrew the commission of the Very Reverend Robert Key following the publication of a diocesan report.
The Safeguarding Panel found there were failures in the implementation of policies in relation to a complaint by a vulnerable adult parishioner in 2008.
The complaint concerned the alleged abusive behaviour of a churchwarden.
A statement from the diocese said the bishop, the Right Reverend Tim Dakin, would begin an investigation to examine “an apparent failure to take the complaint seriously, a perceived lack of neutrality, poor communication and lack of action”.
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