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Legal Advice Note on Creating Independent Safeguarding Arrangments for the Church of England

21 Feb 2024

The recommendations within Professor Jay’s report on the Future of Church Safeguarding are underpinned by 35 pages of legal advice authored by Bates Wells Braithwaite LLP. This advice sets out how new safeguarding arrangements proposed in the report can best be achieved. It also sets out how a new law might look which would create the two key new duties on everyone in the Church to: refer all safeguarding matters to these independent bodies, and implement all the decisions to these bodies.
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Bates Wells

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United Kingdom