{"id":121502,"date":"2023-06-22T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121502"},"modified":"2023-06-22T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T21:08:21","slug":"bbc-church-of-england-sacks-independent-abuse-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121502","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Church of England sacks independent abuse panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has sacked a panel of experts who provided independent oversight of how it dealt with abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishops&#8217; Council confirmed it was &#8220;ending the contracts&#8221; of all three board members &#8211; acting chair Meg Munn, Jasvinder Sanghera and Steve Reeves.<\/p>\n<p>The latter two recently claimed the Church had been obstructive and interfered with their work.<\/p>\n<p>The Church said relations between them and senior bishops had &#8220;broken down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-65977524\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will be asking the Second Church Estates Commissioner, Andrew Selous MP, to request a briefing for MPs &amp; Peers on *what on earth is going on* with the \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@churchofengland<\/a>\u2069 &amp; safeguarding. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eI9XNwPyi5\">https:\/\/t.co\/eI9XNwPyi5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Bradshaw (@BenPBradshaw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenPBradshaw\/status\/1671915827195527189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2023<\/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>The Church of England has sacked a panel of experts who provided independent oversight of how it dealt with abuse. The Archbishops&#8217; Council confirmed it was &#8220;ending the contracts&#8221; of all three board members &#8211; acting chair Meg Munn, Jasvinder<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=121502\">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":[382,67,685,389,199,168,435,184,177,108,112,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-archbishop-of-york-stephen-cottrell","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121502","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=121502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121505,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121502\/revisions\/121505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}