{"id":84193,"date":"2019-07-26T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84193"},"modified":"2019-07-26T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T10:23:10","slug":"church-times-ecclesiastical-insurance-group-eig-planned-to-persuade-bishop-to-take-a-less-active-role-in-claimants-pastoral-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=84193","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Ecclesiastical Insurance Group (EIG) planned to persuade bishop \u2018to take a less active role\u2019 in claimant\u2019s pastoral care"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ecclesiastical Insurance Group (EIG) planned to pressure a bishop to withdraw pastoral support from a survivor of abuse because it might prejudice a claim, redacted documents seen by the Church Times<\/em> suggest.<\/p>\n

The survivor, Julian Whiting, alleges that he was abused by a pupil and two housemasters of the Blue Coat School in Birmingham<\/a>. Neither adult was a cleric. Several years later, in 2012, Mr Whiting approached the Bishop of Birmingham<\/a>, the Rt Revd David Urquhart, who is President of Blue Coat, for pastoral help.<\/p>\n

In a letter to a redacted recipient dated April 2013, the casualty-claims employee for EIG in Manchester states: \u201cI feel we may need you to help persuade the Bishop of Birmingham to take a less active role in his pastoral care of a claimant which we feel could have a knock-on effect to the current outstanding abuse claims we have for a Julian Whiting.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then says of the Blue Coat allegation: \u201cImportantly, he [Julian Whiting] has never pursued a formal claim. There has been a lot of email traffic, but the position is that until the claimant properly formulates the claim, we have rightly shown little interest in the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has recently complicated matters is that the Bishop of Birmingham in his role as Blue Coats [sic<\/em>] School President has met with Whiting to hear his story. Whilst I fully understand the position taken that there is a pastoral care aspect here, my concern is that a continued dialogue with the Bishop and Whiting could prejudice the positioning we have taken in respect of the two claims.\u201d (Mr Whiting was also pursuing a claim that, in 2009, he was groped by a church employee at a social event at Lambeth Palace.)<\/p>\n

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

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https:\/\/t.co\/nL5c2ECKsC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAll agree that at most there is a hassle value and some risk around publicity.\u201d@Ecclesiastical<\/a>@churchofengland<\/a>@AllchurchesT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Gilo (@seaofcomplicity) July 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n