{"id":134355,"date":"2025-01-22T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134355"},"modified":"2025-01-22T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T23:12:08","slug":"church-times-disciplinary-action-for-clergy-named-in-makin-review-to-be-decided-by-panel-of-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134355","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Disciplinary action for clergy named in Makin review to be decided by panel of three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Disciplinary action against individuals criticised in the Makin report is to be considered by a panel including a lawyer known for his work prosecuting Rochdale grooming gangs, it was announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawyer Nazir Afzal will sit as one of the three decision-makers on a panel also comprising the Church of England\u2019s National Director of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/safeguarding\">Safeguarding<\/a>, Alexander Kubeyinje, and a former Director of People at Croydon Council, Barbara Peacock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Afzal is also chair of the C of E\u2019s National Safeguarding Panel (NSP), which offers independent scrutiny and guidance to the Church\u2019s National Safeguarding Team, led by Mr Kubeyinje (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/13-september\/news\/uk\/new-chair-appointed-for-national-safeguarding-panel\">News, 13 September<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement from Church House on Thursday says that Mr Afzal\u2019s work on the new panel \u201cis separate [from] and independent\u201d of his position with the NSP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/17-january\/news\/uk\/disciplinary-action-for-clergy-named-in-makin-review-to-be-decided-by-panel-of-three\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disciplinary action against individuals criticised in the Makin report is to be considered by a panel including a lawyer known for his work prosecuting Rochdale grooming gangs, it was announced on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qwJzYxSbsy\">https:\/\/t.co\/qwJzYxSbsy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1882110181095428564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disciplinary action against individuals criticised in the Makin report is to be considered by a panel including a lawyer known for his work prosecuting Rochdale grooming gangs, it was announced on Thursday. The lawyer Nazir Afzal will sit as one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134355\">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":[175,324,435,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134355","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=134355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134360,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134355\/revisions\/134360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}