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Enhancing the Safety of All Persons within the Anglican Communion: Initiatives of the Instruments of Communion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2021

Garth Blake
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Abstract

This article tells the story of initiatives of the Instruments of Communion to enhance the safety of all persons within the Anglican Communion over the past three decades. These Initiatives have taken place against the backdrop of the significant evidence that has come to light in recent years of abuse being perpetrated by clergy and lay leaders against children, young people and vulnerable adults in the provinces. It describes the actions of the Lambeth Conference, the Primates’ Meeting, the Anglican Consultative Council, and the work of the Anglican Communion Safe Church Commission.

Keywords

abuseAnglican CommunionInstruments of Communionmissionprovincesafe churchsafeguarding
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Anglican Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , November 2021 , pp. 134 - 150
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© The Journal of Anglican Studies Trust 2021

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Footnotes

1

Garth Blake is the Chair of the Anglican Communion Safe Church Commission.

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7 This material is derived from the report dated 10 July 2020 of the Steering Committee of the Anglican Communion Safe Church Consultation to the Standing Committee. Garth Blake was the author of this report, which is not published on the website of the Anglican Communion Office.

8 Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican Church of Canada, Church of Aotearoa, Polynesia and New Zealand, Church of England, Church of Ireland, Scottish Episcopal Church, The Episcopal Church.

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