Sexual Abuse in the Church and Society

My involvement with FACES, Faiths Against Child Sexual Exploitation, a working group looking at sexual exploitation in the community, has meant I am very attuned to issues of sexual abuse in my own community the church. Over recent years I have as a result used my place as a member of the Church of England’s national governance body, General Synod, to speak out on these issues.

Blog posts here and elsewhere:

January 2025 Responding to Musk, Farage and “Tommy” and grooming gangs (on FACES website)

September 2020 Appropriately Exposing Evil: The IICSA Inquiry on Child Abuse in Organised Networks (on FACES website)

August 2020 Was it necessary to escalate concerns about the implementation of safeguarding in the CofE?

July 2020 When a safeguarding referral is made no amount of special pleading should change that

March 2020 When religious leaders fall [on disclosures on Jean Vanier] (on FACES website)

February 2020 Closing the door on a shameful past: the need for a fully rounded response by CofE General Synod to IICSA

January 2020 The Church’s Darkest Secret A response to the BBC2 documentary on abuse by former bishop Peter Ball (On FACES website)

October 2019 Tamar, a victim of sexual abuse A sermon at St Marys Church, Luton