UNITED KINGDOM
Premier
Tue 15 Mar 2016
By Antony Bushfield
The Church of England’s been told to change the way it deals with allegations of abuse after a damming report found its response to one case was “simply not acceptable”.
The Elliott Review was commissioned in September 2015 to look into alleged sexual abuse committed against a man during the 1970s.
His claims were made to a number of different people on separate occasions through the intervening years, both within and outside the Church, but no action was taken.
The survivor said he had “not received a response which he felt adequately addressed his needs”.
Senior members of clergy questioned said they did not remember the allegations being made, something, the report says, is “hard to accept”.
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