National abuse policy is a pile of rubbish, says critic

A REFORM of the Church of England's safeguarding procedures, to be discussed by the General Synod next weekend, has been dismissed by a spokeswoman for a survivors group.

Anne Lawrence, a barrister, from Minister and Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors, said that those addressing safeguarding in the Church of England were "seeking to fix a problem before they know what the problem is. The survivors are the symptoms, the debris,the bits broken by a system that breaks things."