by Madeleine Davies

Posted: 28 Jun 2013

A REFORM of the Church of England’s safeguarding procedures, to be discussed by the General Synod next weekend, has been dismissed by a spokeswoman for a survivors group.

Anne Lawrence, a barrister, from Minister and Clergy SexualAbuse Survivors, said that those addressing safeguarding in the Church of England were “seeking to fix a problem before they know what the problem is. The survivors are the symptoms, the debris, the bits broken by a system that breaks things. If they want tostop …