{"id":146909,"date":"2026-07-29T17:27:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146909"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:36:47","slug":"church-times-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146909","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Church of England safeguarding progress being resisted at high level, says INEQE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Significant progress in church safeguarding is being undermined by resistance from senior officers, INEQE, the company auditing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/safeguarding\">safeguarding<\/a>\u00a0in every diocese and cathedral, has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>INEQE said in its 2025 audit that the Church of England was experiencing a \u201cdangerous\u201d period of institutional \u201cdrift\u201d regarding future safeguarding structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also said that unprecedented engagement from more than 10,000 contributors showed \u201ca maturing safeguarding culture, though critical structural inhibitors remain at the senior level\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings are set out in INEQE\u2019s 2025&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/churchofengland.blob.core.windows.net\/annual-report\/2025\/INEQE-CofE-independent-safeguarding-audits-annual-report-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Annual Report on the Independent Safeguarding Audits of Church of England Dioceses and Cathedrals<\/a><\/em>, alongside two companion reports,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/churchofengland.blob.core.windows.net\/annual-report\/2025\/INEQE-CofE-independent-safeguarding-audits-chorister-annual-report-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chorister Safeguarding<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/churchofengland.blob.core.windows.net\/annual-report\/2025\/INEQE-CofE-independent-safeguarding-audits-annual-report-victim-and-survivor-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Victim and Survivor Engagement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The audit highlighted \u201ctangible\u201d improvements in safeguarding, increasingly understood as a \u201cgospel and theological imperative\u201d rather than as merely an administrative requirement. The report also speaks of growing confidence among individuals in raising concerns without fear of reprisal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/24-july\/news\/uk\/church-of-england-safeguarding-progress-being-resisted-at-high-level-says-ineqe\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant progress in church safeguarding is being undermined by resistance from senior officers, INEQE, the company auditing\u00a0safeguarding\u00a0in every diocese and cathedral, has said. INEQE said in its 2025 audit that the Church of England was experiencing a \u201cdangerous\u201d period of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146909\">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":[36,101,389,168,184,177,108,112,110,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146909","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=146909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146918,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146909\/revisions\/146918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}