The week in which Health Secretary Wes Streeting told a meeting that he was “trying to break the culture of the voluntary sector and the way that it lobbies government”…

… as perpetrators ourselves, we’re sorry about that, but sometimes government needs to be told where the charitable shoe pinches.

Liability under C of E’s new safeguarding proposals

Further to our recent posts on the involvement of the Charity Commission and the Church of England, here and here, on 3 February the Church Times reported that VWV, a firm of solicitors whose registry team is led by Jos Moule, the Diocesan Registrar for the Diocese of Gloucester and the Diocese of Truro and is supported by a team of specialist ecclesiastical lawyers who advise on all aspects of ecclesiastical law. VWV has produced a paper Future of church safeguarding: Advice note (31 January 2025), commissioned by the Gloucester Diocesan Board of Finance but shared with other DBFs. It addresses the implications for DBFs of “model 4” — one of two options for greater independence of safeguarding, set to be presented to the General Synod next week. 

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