{"id":77395,"date":"2019-01-16T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77395"},"modified":"2019-01-16T04:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T09:49:54","slug":"c-of-e-statement-following-iicsa-preliminary-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77395","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) Statement following IICSA preliminary hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/statement-following-iicsa-preliminary-hearing\">Read it all<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bishop Peter Hancock, lead safeguarding bishop for the Church of England said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the comments today from Fiona Scolding QC* on the wider church hearing scheduled for July which outlined the focus of the Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>We fully support the emphasis on the present and future of safeguarding in the Church of England which will help with our commitment to make the Church a safer place for all. Miss Scolding QC said the Inquiry will be looking at whether changes being implemented by the Church of England are relevant and purposeful. I believe this part of the Inquiry will be critical in helping us ensure that our safeguarding work is effective and rigorous and that survivors\u2019 and victims\u2019 views are heard.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to be committed to working closely with the Inquiry in a constructive and transparent way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*Fiona Scolding is the counsel to IICSA for the investigation into the Anglican Church in England and Wales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (Interested readers will note the link to the full transcript of the hearing at the end to read more).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all: Bishop Peter Hancock, lead safeguarding bishop for the Church of England said: \u201cWe welcome the comments today from Fiona Scolding QC* on the wider church hearing scheduled for July which outlined the focus of the Inquiry. We<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77395\">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":[175,389,199,168,114,437,435,184,436,177,108,112,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77395","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=77395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77396,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77395\/revisions\/77396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}