Safeguarding failures: we've done enough talking

Dear Editor,

In the March issue of en, Jules Loveland thinks what churches need in regard to safeguarding is a conversation. “Now is the time for churches to have an urgent and honest conversation about the churches ability to protect people from harm, its culture, and how it is held responsible.”

For the Church of England this is not the case, because we already know the answers. The church has repeatedly demonstrated its inability to protect people from harm; demonstrated a culture that covers up safeguarding failures, protects abusers and ignores victims; and demonstrated that those in positions of leadership are not held responsible.