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22/5/19 bbc3cr - The Rt Hon Dame Cheryl MP names a QC, now a sitting Judge, who misled the court in the trial or R v. R.P Wright of Caldicott School that resulted in the delay of all further cases stemming from the school following broadcast of 'Chosen'

r4Sunday 21/4/19 - Vincent Nichols on child abuse in the Catholic Church and its treatment of victims. But answers came there none

BBCRadioStoke 22/3/19 - Crewe Alexandra's cut n'paste safeguarding policy needs to be scrapped.

bbcr4 'Sunday' 10/3/19 - Christopher Pearson Chair of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission stating that in England and Wales the Church has mandatory reporting - except it doesn't.

bbcr4 'Sunday' 17/3/19 - Meg Munn Chair National Safeguarding Panel @churchofengland. Contradictions, misinformation and safeguarding fantasy - all in 6 minutes.

R4Sunday 3/3/19 - Interview with Patrick Raggett about his experience of taking the Catholic Church to court.

RC-A8 gives evidence to #IICSA #EBChearing and describes the beatings, child cruelty and sexual abuse he experienced @stbenedicts.

IICSA 4/2/19 #EBChearing - Opening statement from Richard Scorer representing many core participants at St Benedict's School Ealing

#r4today 14/12/18 - Catherine Pepinster - 'Thought for the day' on the appearance of Vincent Nichols @inquiryCSA

HoC 27/11/14 - Karen Bradley (HO) announces 'historic' dropped from #CSA Public Inquiry title

PMQ's 28.11.18 - Tracy Brabin MP - will the PM commit to introduce MR across all institutions including the @churchofengland?

r4today 14/11/18 - Whistleblowing in the NHS. But the weaknesses discussed in this i/v are present in most institutions.

r5Live 4/11/18 Sportsweek - Tracey Crouch post resignation i/v. Safeguarding: 'there are vulnerabilities in system!' The former Minister clearly does not recognise that the 'framework' works against functioning safeguarding + good staff trying their best

r4today 08.00 news bulletin 22/10/18 - Aus PM apology and calls for tougher laws for failing to report abuse. Meanwhile in Eng + Wal there is no law to report abuse (#MandatoryReporting), the DfE is still looking for the light switch

#r4today 22/10/18 - Aus PM apology to #CSA survivors. i/v with David Hill, a child migrant who gave evidence to IICSA

bbc #newsnight 15/10/18 #Commonsabuse: self-regulation won't work, scrap limitation, abuse is not historical, more women than men abused | Does this sound familiar IICSA?

3/10/18 - Conservative Party Conference. AGO Rt Hon Geoffrey Cox was delighted at the attendance for his speech, note his observation about the rule of law.

BBCr4 Sunday 30/9/18 - Breaking the Seal of the Confessional, a report from Australia following #CARoyalComm recommendations to lift the seal.

BBC3cr 27/9/18 - Early #MRseminar Interview by Mandate Now following the 'waterfall' which stopped the seminar at IICSA's Pocock Street venue. Cue cricketing metaphors.

LBC 3/9/18 - Grenfell update. Two key points relevant to IICSA (i) Interim reports (ii) the questioning of witnesses by lawyers for CP victims. Leslie Thomas QC said victims felt like bystanders to an investigation of their own tragedy

BBCrUlster 31/8/18: Mandatory reporting in confession. Richard Scorer discusses with Alban Maginness, now retired SDLP MLA, hosted by William Crawley

SkyNews 26/8/18 - @MsDingle reviews newspaper coverage of the Pope's visit to Ireland and demonstrates a profound ignorance of #CSA and clerical abuse. "Why are you calling them survivors - did they nearly die? No!"

bbcr4Sunday 19/8/18 - Donald Findlater of @stopitnow informing listeners that the CofE safeguarding 'is in a rather different position now,' and that training and policies will significantly improve child protection in the church

bbcr4Sunday 19/8/18 - excellent interview with Mark Stibbe about the grooming and abuse perpetrated on him by John #Smyth who died last week

#r4today 13/8/18: Following the death of John #Smyth, the Today programme reports on the damaging 'blanking' of abusees by @churchofengland and the Titus Trust, formerly the Iwerne Trust

#wato 9/8/18 - John O'Brian of IICSA suggests that separation of Governance at Benedictine schools will deliver material improvement to safeguarding. It won't, but #MR law will

#wato 9/8/18 - James O'Brien a former pupil of Ampleforth, talks of the unique power of teachers who are monks, and the normalisation of abusive behaviour. He suggest Mandatory Reporting is one way of unlocking breakdowns in communication.

#r4today preview of IICSA's report into Ampleforth and Downside to be published today. One girl, who left in 2010, was given marks out of ten for performing oral sex on the teacher

#r4today 9/8/18 - Richard Scorer on today's IICSA report into safeguarding failures at Ampleforth and Downside and the essential need for the introduction of Mandatory Reporting

IICSA 23/7/18 Richard Scorer opening statement for #CP Abusees #AnglicanHearing into Peter Ball.

bbc r4today 14/7/18 - A report published today by the CPS Inspectorate on the widespread shortcomings in disclosure in the CJS

bbcr4Sunday 8/7/18 : A misunderstanding of law. There is no statutory requirement to report known or suspected abuse of either a child or an adult

bbcr4 Sunday 24/6/18. CofE 2007/9 Past Case Review and Singleton's Report on it - David Greenwood and Bishop Hancock interviewed

#r4today 22/6/18 Donna Birrell introduces story of 2010 @ChurchofEngland Past Case Review report

#r4today 22/6/18 Sir Roger Singleton on the @churchofengland 2010 'review' of clerical abuse. 40k files were reduced to 13 cases of #CSA from all 42 dioceses.

Abuse in Sport debate 1/5/18 (Part 2). Dr Allin-Khan shadow sports minister stressed the need for #MR but in reply the Sports Minister Rt Hon Tracey Crouch remained #MR silent

Abuse in Sport debate 1/5/18 secured by Bambos Charalambous MP (Part 1). Functioning safeguarding in #RA's has a vital missing component - #MR

Extract from opening statement of Richard Scorer during @inquiryCSA investigation into @c_of_e in which he quotes from a Mandate Now review of current CofE child protection policy

BBC Radio Manc 12/4/18 @jalilancs provides an excellent summary of #Rochdale abuse. IICSA report released at noon | @inquiryCSA

#r4today 9/4/18 - Amber Rudd suggests the increased reporting of #CSE cases is causing police challenges, then realises the cul de sac she's entered. It's the cuts

.@bbcr4sunday : #IICSA @c_of-e hearing. Phil Johnson with Bishops Wilson + Sowerby, who mistakenly believes @c_of_e has #MR but resists statutory #MR being introduced. Why?

BBC Sussex - Callum May on @c_of_e investigation by IICSA. The one club response to child protection failure in the church is 'training.' It cannot work in isolation

IICSA 23/3/18 - Professor Jay Chair of @inquiryCSA closes #AnglicanHearing into @chichesterdio with a statement that includes timetable for the report, and date for further @c_of_e hearing into Peter Ball

IICSA 23/3/18 David Greenwood's closing statement to @inquiryCSA on behalf of MACSAS and Core Participant abusees in the #Anglicanhearing

IICSA 23/3/18 Richard Scorer's closing statement to @inquiryCSA on behalf multiple Core Participant abusees in the #AnglicanHearing

IICSA 21/3/18 Peter Hancock Lead Bishop of Safeguarding @c_of_e. It is hard to believe this could be considered a credible reply to a question about #MR from @richard_scorer

IICSA 20/3/18 - Prof Sir Malcolm Evans asks Mr Tilby, National Safeguarding Adviser @c_of_e about #MR. It's hard to imagine a more muddled reply. It suggests he doesn't understand it @inquirycsa

IICSA 20/3/18 - Tilby on #MR : "training to recognise abuse increases reporting" except unsurprisingly, he cannot provide empirical evidence to support his opinion. "#MR when you have identified abuse is right." | Just bewildering!

IICSA 20/3/18 - Ivor Frank questions Graham Tilby, National Safeguarding Adviser @c_of_e, on the use of 'circumlocutious and flaccid language' in CofE safeguarding 'guidance.'

.@inquiryCSA 15/3/18 - Colin Perkins DSA of @chichesterdio on denial and 'gaze aversion' to child abuse. Yet he declined to explain his ambivalence towards #MandatoryReporting at the #anglicanhearing

IICSA 16/3/18 Sir Roger Singleton is permitted to sidestep a question about #MR by CTI during @inquiryCSA #AnglicanHearing.

IICSA 16/3/18 Colin Perkins - Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser @Chichesterdio - A confused reply to a question on the need for Mandatory Reporting

IICSA 15/3/18 Rt Revd Nicholas Reade former Archdeacon of Lewes and Hastings | Further delamination of @c_of_e credibility indicates external intervention is vital

IICSA 14/3/18 - Bishop Warner says he is against #MR. Furthermore #CSA is of primary concern except if revealed under the seal of confession

IICSA 13/3/18 Bishop Mark Sowerby suggests MR already exists in the church. Deputy lead Bishop for Safeguarding and he seems not to know the basics.

IICSA 13/3/18 Revd Canon and Worshipful Dr Rupert Bursell KC - former Chancellor of Diocese of Durham talks about the confessional and supports the introduction of #MR for child abuse

bbc3cr 6/3/18: MandateNow with Roberto Perrone discussing @ukhomeoffice @educationgovuk rejection of #MR.

IICSA 6/3/18 #AnglicanHearing @inquirycsa - Phil Johnson of MACSAS concludes his evidence and states what is needed to change @c_of_e safeguarding culture

IICSA 5/3/18 - Opening statement from David Greenwood who represents nine core participant complainants.

.@inquiryCSA 5/3/18 @C_of_E Investigation - Diocese of Chichester | Opening statement from Richard Scorer who represents 21 core participant complainants.

bbc3cr 5/3/18 - Mandate Now comments on the dysfunctional @c_of_e child protection 'guidance' on the day the Diocese of Chichester hearing starts at IICSA

bbc3cr 5/3/18 : Bishop Alan Wilson describes the @c_of_e child protection policy as 'not fit for purpose' on the day @inquirycsa investigation of @c_of_e abuse begins

A 'fans forum' with Chairman of Crewe Alexandra FC on 26/2/18. This question about Bennell gets a monosyllabic response from Bowler to the seeming delight of 'fans'

IICSA Seminar 26/2/18 - A belated point made by an abusee in the public gallery : 'do not come forward.'

BBC Radio Kent 23/2/18 - With the apparent rise in child abuse reporting rates why is #MR needed?

LBC 19/2/18 James O'Brien interviews Alex Renton presenter of the ITV Exposure documentary - Boarding Schools: the #secretshame

IICSA 15/12/17 - Catholic Investigation - Sam Stein QC raises the still highly troubling issue of late disclosure of documents which @inquirycsa seems unable to correct

IICSA 15/12/17 - Catholic Investigation - Tania Griffiths QC for Eileen Shearer and Adrian Child (COPCA / CSAS).

IICSA 15/12/17 - Catholic Investigation - Kate Gallafent QC for Downside Abbey and School suggests safeguarding is all different now

IICSA 15/12/17 - Catholic Investigation - Matthias Kelly QC for Ampleforth suggests - things have gone wrong in the past, but its all different now

IICSA 13/12/17 Catholic Investigation - Dominic Ruck Keene representing abusee Core Participants. Fort Augustus features repeatedly in statement

IICSA 15/12/17 - Catholic Investigation - William Chapman Closing statement for abusee Core Participants. Among other recommendations #MR is included

IICSA 15/12/17 - Catholic Investigation by Ian O'Donnell QC representing Core Participant abusees. Call for #MR

IICSA 13/12/17 - Kate Richards (ISI) responding to a Q from Ivor Frank | Well-designed #MR is a statutory instrument with attendant statutory services that positively impact safeguarding for Regulated Activities.

IICSA 13/12/17 - Adrian Child wants accountability through mandatory enforcement - Catholic Church has had two opportunities to get it right, no point in tinkering around

IICSA 13/12/17 - A solicitor from Hugh James asks Yeo, a canon lawyer, two questions about #MR and receives clear answers.

IICSA 13/12/17 - Dom Richard Yeo - No legal obligation for schools to report abuse to statutory authorities but Church policies indicate schools 'should.'

IICSA 12/12/17 - Dom Richard Yeo is asked about F65 who is alleged to have kissed a boy of 16 yrs and performed fellatio on him. F65 thereafter became a Governor, and F77 a Trustee.

IICSA 12/12/17 - Very Rev Dom Leo Maidlow Davis - wheelbarrowing files from the basement of his house as headmaster, to burn in the grounds of Downside during the summer holidays (2012 maybe)

IICSA 6/12/17: Jane​ ​Dziadulewicz Clifton Diocese Safeguarding - Recommending the principle of #Mandatory Reporting for the catholic church

IICSA 6/12/17: Jane​ ​Dziadulewicz Clifton Diocese Safeguarding. Clergy 'can choose whether to comply with policies and procedures.

IICSA 6/12/17: Jane​ ​Dziadulewicz Clifton Diocese Safeguarding. 'We don't have any powers to enforce recommendations - we can only advise.'

IICSA 6/12/17 - Following her courageous testimony today, Witness RC-A117 was asked if she had anything further to add. Yes she did.

IICSA 1/12/17 - David Molesworth North Yorks CC asked about secret letter he saw for the first time 6 days ago from Ampleforth lawyers to Abbot Cuthbert Madden

IICSA 27/11/17 - Response to accusations of late 'disclosure' by K Gallafent QC (Downside, EBC), M.Kelly QC (Ampleforth), and Karmy-Jones QC (IICSA)

IICSA 27/11/17: 'Disclosure' - Sam Stein QC speaking for and on behalf of CP abusees and their collective legal representatives about late disclosure in #EBC hearing. He informs the Chair of her role and responsibilities

IICSA 27/11/17 - Karmy-Jones QC rejects IICSA is responsible for tardy disclosure and points finger firmly at CPs Downside and the English Benedictine Congregation

IICSA 27/11/17 Tanya Griffiths QC complaining unsparingly about late disclosure of documents by IICSA

IICSA 27/11/17. Catholic Church Investigation. Opening submission from Richard Scorer on behalf of CP abusees. Calls for the introduction of Mandatory Reporting

bbc3cr 21/11/17 : Hill End Adolescent Hospital, St Albans - being investigated for multiple abuses of patients. Police appeal for assistance

bbcr4 News 15.10.17 - Senior Bishops say CofE needs to change the way it responds to victims of CSA

#BBCPanorama 10/10/17 Dr Christine Barter - 'many schools do not report sexual violence to outside agencies'

#BBCPanorama 10/10/17. Sarah Hannafin NAHT 'more clarity in wht action teachrs MUST take is needed. 'Peer/peer abuse

Wales Online 15/8/17: Mary Baxter-Thornton (VSCP). IICSA ToRs must have changed - 'anyone who has been abused' ?

bbc r4 Sunday 30/7/17: Charity Commission censures Jehovah's Witnesses over child protection policy and protocols

BBCr4 PM 21.7.17 CofE - its 'unconnected' insurer @ecclesiastical - and the treatment of #CSA victims

IICSA 11/7/17: Child Migrants. Barnardo's desire to protect reputation did not impact safeguarding apparently

bbc #pm 22/6/17 - Graham Sawyer abused by Peter Ball speaks about the Dame Moira Gibb report for @c_of_e

#bbc5Live Adrian Chiles 13/6/17. A parting of the ways. SOIA withdraw from IICSA while Nigel O'Mara wished to remain

BBC VictoriaLIVE 16.6.17 : SOIA - Survivors of Organised and Institutional Abuse announce withdrawal from #IICSA