{"id":142827,"date":"2026-01-26T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142827"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:37:41","slug":"church-times-new-model-for-church-of-england-safeguarding-structures-on-synod-agenda-for-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142827","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) New model for Church of England safeguarding structures on Synod agenda for February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Other business includes proposals to outsource Church of England safeguarding<\/strong> to a new independent body, which were approved in principle last February (News, 14 February 2025<\/a>); but implementing that decision has not been straightforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan originally approved last year called for the National Safeguarding Team (NST) to be transferred to a new independent charity, and a second outside organisation to be set up to scrutinise all church safeguarding. Diocesan and cathedral safeguarding teams would remain employed by their respective dioceses and cathedrals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since, then, however, the working group has concluded that this would require years of ponderous legislative processes. Survivors and others wish to move faster, and so a new model has been drawn up, a Synod paper explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One new independent body would be created \u2014 provisionally titled the Church of England Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA). It would be overseen by a board, which would have a majority of non-church members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>

A new model for quasi-independent #safeguarding<\/a> is on the General Synod\u2019s agenda next month, as are urban #poverty<\/a> and the parliamentary ping-pong about the Clergy Conduct Measure#Synod<\/a> #synodagenda<\/a> #clergyconduct<\/a> #churchnews<\/a> #churchtimes<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/YROYOjEi5M<\/a><\/p>— Church Times (@ChurchTimes) January 26, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>