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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 a...

A leading barrister has published her report on the first phase of the Church of England's Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB).

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 ...

"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 wa...