Oral Question·Church Commissioners
“To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what assessment the Church has made of the potential merits of implementing an independent safeguarding process.”
Tabled: 15 May 2025Answered: 22 May 2025
Asked by
Wera Hobhouse
Liberal Democrat — Bath
Answering Minister
the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners
Answer from Hansard
Marsha De Cordova
At the General Synod in February, I called for a fully independent model for safeguarding. Synod did not adopt that approach but did commit to undertaking some detailed work that would ensure it could work towards that sort of model. As I said earlier in my responses, it is vital that the Church seeks to begin to restore and rebuild trust and confidence in it.