UNITED KINGDOM
Exaro News
By David Hencke | 15 October 2014
The Church of England has given a strong lead, and instituted urgent root-and-branch reform of how it deals with child abuse
Bishops and vicars are to undergo training on safeguarding children as part of a drive to combat child sex abuse in the Church of England.
The training, to include how to respond after receiving a complaint of child sex abuse within the Church of England (CoE), is to be introduced first for new clergy. The plan is to roll out training for existing bishops and vicars later.
The CoE is also to change canon law to make bishops accountable for the safeguarding of children in their diocese for the first time since it broke away from the Roman Catholic church during the reign of King Henry VIII. The changes mark what one expert called a wholesale “re-writing” of the CoE’s policy towards safeguarding children in the wake of scandals over paedophile priests.
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