The Church of England\u2019s safeguarding procedures in cases of reported sexual abuse have been condemned as \u201cfundamentally flawed\u201d\u009d by an independent review, which was commissioned by the Church.<\/p>\n
The Archbishop of Canterbury has promised to implement the changes that the review calls for, and to do so quickly.<\/p>\n
The review, which was carried out by Ian Elliott, a safeguarding consultant with the Churches\u2019 Child Protection Advisory Service, considered the Church\u2019s response to allegations of sexual abuse by the Revd Garth Moore, a former Chancellor of the dioceses of Southwark, Durham, and Gloucester, who died in 1990… It concerned an attempted rape by Chancellor Moore of \u201cJoe\u201d\u009d (not his real name), which took place while Joe, then aged 16, was staying as a house guest at Chancellor Moore\u2019s rooms in Gray\u2019s Inn.<\/p>\n
Joe was then drawn into what he has described as an exploitative and emotionally abusive relationship by Brother Michael Fisher SSF, who later became Bishop of St Germans.<\/p>\n