Oral Question·Church Commissioners
“To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, what progress the National Church Institutions have made on improving safeguarding.”
Tabled: 15 May 2025Answered: 22 May 2025
Asked by
Luke Myer
Labour — Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
Answering Minister
the Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners
Answer from Hansard
Marsha De Cordova
I thank my hon. Friend for continuing to rightly hold the Church to account on this issue. As he knows, in February the General Synod voted to adopt a partially independent safeguarding model that includes an external scrutiny body and a commitment to carry out further work to identify the legal and practical challenges of moving towards a fully independent safeguarding model.