And well talk about that. Youre also a lifelong advocate for survivors of abuse and you were hired by the Church Of England to be part of their independent Safeguarding Board, but youve been fired. Does all of that suggest to you that key institutions might talk the talk about protecting the vulnerable, but maybe theyre not so good on delivery . Absolutely, i would agree with that point. And specifically, my role was survivor advocate, so my role was specifically to be a voice for victims and survivors who had experienced spiritual abuse by the hands of members of the clergy across the board and to ensure that their views were not only heard, but embedded across policy and practice. So, from my perspective, i did thatjob. I sat with victims and survivors, i listened to the harrowing stories of abuse but, equally, those they went to who often looked the other way. And i shared those experiences with the highest of the highest, so the Archbishops Council members, made up of the most seni
The Most Rev Justin Welby has faced further criticism this week, with a formal request for his resignation being placed before the Church of England General Synod.
an independent service level agreement between the independent safeguarding board and the church of england and we signed that but they didn t sign it. so, we couldn t access any information. an independent body, surely, should have no no go areas but we were finding ourselves in that position. yeah, i mean, we ve spoken to the church of england and they ve given us a response. yeah. they reject many of the accusations that you make, specifically about things like you claiming that you were told by officials that you were too survivor focused. they say that is a complete misrepresentation of what you were told. they also say that you and steve reeves behaved in a way which made the functioning of the board pretty much impossible. and to add to that, meg munn, who was the interim chairman appointed to this board of three, she says of you and steve reeves
although they initially welcomed my appointment, the two existing board members that is, you and reeves routinely ignored emails, failed to respond to reasonable requests, declined to have meetings. i was staggered at this unprofessional behaviour, particularly when it concerned such important issues. 0k. so, the first thing to say is that we re an independent body. after the first chair resigned because of serious data breaches, she resigned the second chair should have been somebody appointed in the same way we were appointed, openly recruited, and she wasn t. she was imposed upon us. this is nothing against meg munn, by the way. so, the point here is the archbishops council make a decision for the independent body to appoint a chair who, within 48 hours, 7a victims and survivors contact us to say, do not, under any circumstances, share data with this person because she s part of the church.