Church in Wales record-keeping policies
IICSA · The Anglican Church Investigation Report · Issued 6 October 2020 · Addressed to: Church in Wales
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, E
The Church in Wales should introduce record-keeping policies relating to safeguarding, complaints and whistleblowing. These should be implemented consistently across dioceses. The Church should develop policies and training on the information that must be recorded in files. The Church should provide its provincial safeguarding officers with the right to see personnel files of clergy, office holders, employees or others if concerns and complaints are raised about child protection or safeguarding.
IICSA, The Anglican Church Investigation Report · 6 Oct 2020 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- In May 2023, the government confirmed that this recommendation had been completed by the Church in Wales (Government Response to IICSA Final Report, HM Government, May 2023).
Response — verbatim from government
●UK Government
On 7 April 2021, the Church in Wales stated that its national online safeguarding case management and record-keeping system had launched, serving as a single searchable repository of all Church in Wales safeguarding and whistleblowing case data, while its safeguarding policy sets out that casework of a safeguarding nature is undertaken at a national level to ensure consistent implementation. It also stated that it is developing procedural guidance to document what information is held, and how information should be exchanged between the safeguarding case management systems and personnel records held at a diocesan local level. Relevant staff would be trained in accordance with this guidance. The Church in Wales stated that provincial safeguarding officers already have the right to view the personnel files of clergy and agreed that its procedural guidance needs to make clear to the various employers of other church staff that the same applies to lay personnel. On 7 January 2022, the Church in Wales stated that the timetable for adopting updated procedural guidance had slipped.
UK Government · 22 May 2023 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
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