@OSacrumCorIesu@liambeadle@liturgicalben We were given an email address if we have questions. I will send that to you. I have to say I found it a very confusing document and it looks more like an internal draft than a consultation document.
@OSacrumCorIesu@liambeadle@liturgicalben I also think the Charity Commission aren’t always aware of how a church can be quite different from other charities in the sheer range of people we can encounter in the course of a week.
@OSacrumCorIesu@liambeadle@liturgicalben Yes absolutely. I think all charities are meant to be already doing it. Have a look at the Charity Commission page on Safeguarding. I don’t know when they decided this. I’m not sure if their decisions are accountable to anyone.
@MadsDavies One of the outcomes of this is that people end up asking for a priest to do all the things that their last priest wasn’t very good at. But then taking for granted all the things they were great at doing. Disappointment in things being lost or forgotten ensues.
@MadsDavies I feel a significant problem is that often the people writing them have no experience of doing anything similar and have no idea about the climate they are speaking into. Support given to parishes seems very variable in the process.
@Remisagoodboy I wonder why she does not wear the Garter sash. Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) wore it at State Openings as Queen Consort. Prince Philip wore the Great George which surely she would be entitled to do as well.
@MadsDavies Yes that is indeed his father, who sadly died some years ago but used to attend our parish @stalbanswos in his retirement. Alex’s mother was until recently our Churchwarden.