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faces many different challenges; ensuring proper safeguarding practices and training especially after the Makin Review, maintaining and growing both congregations and clergy numbers in an increasingly secular nation, stewarding our environment carefully while avoiding unnecessary burdens on smaller struggling parishes, and the list could go on.
national work on safeguarding in ordination discernment and spiritual accompaniment, drawing on work developed in Chester and following recommendations from the Makin Review;
The shock of the Makin review on John Smyth is still reverberating around the Synod and new evidence keeps coming to light of yet more victims of abuse by church
Safeguarding: putting survivors and safety first The Makin Review and the wider safeguarding failures of recent years have demonstrated the urgent need to rebuild trust.
that threaten to tear it apart: Safeguarding following the Makin Review; Living in Love &Faith (LLF); Vicars becoming an “endangered species” amid recruiting crisis; falling congregational numbers; lack of sufficient numbers of volunteers; Finances; care of creation; wars and conflicts; Contested Heritage and Reparation; Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI); assisted dying, abortion etc.
This will include looking at how investment funds are used and apportioned, safeguarding structures in response to the Makin review, raising and paying for vocations, continued work on sexuality, renewing trust between the laity, clergy, Bishops and the NCIs, our response in bringing peace to a divided nation, providing hope in a cost of living crisis and deeply embedded poverty and inequality, and the rise in Christian nationalism.
The church should be a safe haven for all Efforts must be made to rebuild public trust following publication of the Makin review and the findings of IICSA on safeguarding God stands with the oppressed