{"id":104347,"date":"2021-07-23T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104347"},"modified":"2021-07-23T17:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:40:47","slug":"cen-safeguarding-sunday-launched-but-criticisms-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104347","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Safeguarding Sunday launched but \u2018criticisms\u2019 remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safeguarding Sunday, will be introduced to churches nationally, a new initiative aiming to raise the profile of safeguarding.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of Huddersfield, Jonathan Gibbs, gave a Safeguarding update to Synod.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Gibbs, the Church of England\u2019s lead safeguarding bishop, told Synod the church is \u201centering a season of action\u201d in which \u201cthere is far more to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim is to help people see safeguarding as an integral part of the mission of the church,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafeguarding is partly about stopping bad things happening and about how we respond when they do, but it is also about enabling our churches to become places where people  are enabled to flourish and grow into the fullness of life that God intends for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchnewspaper.com\/86069\/archives\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our free <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/publiclecture?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#publiclecture<\/a> on Thursday is Bishop Jonathan Gibbs Inaugural Lecture, &#39;What on earth are we here for?&#39;: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dq93ecHYFT\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dq93ecHYFT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/htL77OGvoN\">pic.twitter.com\/htL77OGvoN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; University of Huddersfield (@HuddersfieldUni) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuddersfieldUni\/status\/864372352372678656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safeguarding Sunday, will be introduced to churches nationally, a new initiative aiming to raise the profile of safeguarding. The Bishop of Huddersfield, Jonathan Gibbs, gave a Safeguarding update to Synod. Dr Gibbs, the Church of England\u2019s lead safeguarding bishop, told<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104347\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,635,199,168,437,435,184,177,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104352,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104347\/revisions\/104352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}