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posed on the basis that sam s point could be dealt with when the legislation comes to be debate din due course the adjournment was denied by vote had we been in the chamber there would have been rumbles of discontent at the time spent on this diversion especially as we were running late anyway after a summing up from aidan hargreaves smith in which he attempted to demolish the bishop of willesden s arguments the motion to receive the report was passed what s happening with safeguarding and so we came back to safeguarding the document up for debate read it here gives one pause for thought there is so much going on i counted 11 major areas of work a comprehensive list of activities going on to respond to iicsa s recommendations about the church of england vast the scope of current work we were being asked to take note of the report so in that sense this item was a kind of presentation but the debate format allowed members to comment and tell stories of experiences preventing it being a head office telling us what they are doing exercise introducing the item bishop jonathan gibbs noted changes that have taken place in recent years and in response to iicsa he added that whatever we do it will not be enough for victims and survivors who have suffered in a church context backing him up the bishop of london sarah mullaly talked about the need to get away from bureaucratic check lists to a change of culture what we do around here peter adams warned us against partisanship across the church which was related to some of the abuse recently highlighted in the report about the proprietary chapel in south london where jonathan fletcher ministered irregular structures and networks can be weak points and need to be brought into the anglican safeguarding world james cary another bath and wells rep spoke in appreciation of the work now going on at the national safeguarding team nst which he had seen close up as a memberof the archbishops council drawing on his own involvement with children and youngpeople s work at his church in yeovil he reminded synod members that preventing abuse and responding to it was for every church member in our church youth work and other activities it s on all of us the archbishop of canterbury wanted to thank survivors struggling against the intractable burden of the slowness of church responses he went on to thank members of the national safeguardingteam who receive extraordinary abuse from all sorts of quarters he said the culture of safeguarding is going to change very significantly over the next couple of years in transparency in independence and in justice for victims and survivors but we have a long way to go judith maltby apologised again for being a broken record by once again reminding us of the connection made by iicsa and in other cases between abuse and the church s approaches to sexuality she felt the subject was not being fully addressed in current work the revd charles read spoke about his experience of being safeguarding lead for a theological education institute where safeguarding matters popped up out of the woodwork and the contrast between doing theological work on safeguarding with students and with parish clergy canon simon butler reported that training a parishioner in the use of livestreaming equipment had made him think about how he related to her he was quite shocked to see himself in a trial recording from this he realised that in safeguarding and power relationships we must be much more self aware rather than just relying on processes and paperwork to ensure all goes well rosemary lyon as a parish safeguarding officer commended the change of vocabulary from safeguarding training to safeguarding learning the gets away from the routine tickbox approach where people think they have done it jonathan gibbs summed up and the synod voted to take note of the report the numbers game a lovely synodical bit of intraversion came as we wound down elections to general synod are coming up in the autumn and it seems the diocese of lincoln messed up its count of members by some 4 000 people this is vital as it affects the number of seats each diocese gets to be fair the counts were done last year when electoral rolls church annual meetings and suchlike were disrupted by covid lockdowns so such mistakes could easily occur lincoln will lose 2 seats the redistribution means exeter and somewhere else i didn t note get one extra seat each i know some readers will be fascinated by how this works i can only suggest you read the paper here with its lovely appendix b setting out the divisor methods using words like integer and non montonic no really suggestions were made about automating the collection of numbers in future though whether pcc or diocesan admin is up to this is another story farewell farewell farewell praised sue booys listens to her tribute william nye the sceretary general gave a warm tribute to canon sue booys outgoing chair of the business committee as well as getting the show on the road all through the 8 years she was chair she also pushed through ways of getting synod better understood in the wider church that included modernising the paper based system we now have electronic papers and a synod app for example i ve been very grateful for sue s synodical expertise she s been good company for a group of us in various pubs and bars after hours but always very discreet about what might be going on behind the synod scenes she s also been a good friend in tough times archbishop justin then spoke enthusiastically about the bishop of salisbury nick holtam he had been a priest who worked wonders for the dispossessed and homeless at st martin in the fields and also as lead bishop on the environment while at salisbury including being a national and international influence on the cop climate change summits lastly in bidding farewell to my former boss peter hancock archbishop justin spoke of a special sadness because peter and jane have had to wrestle with peter s severe illness which has led to his need to retire on health grounds i wrote a little about this towards the end of this post listening peter and jane hancock as archbishop justin spoke about them the archbishop recited the legendary story of the day peter and jane moved in to their apartment in the wells bishop s palace some seven years ago their introduction to the staff team there was when their dog juno inserted herself into a meeting room and devoured cakes set out for a birthday party more seriously justin said peter had taken on the lead bishop for safeguarding role which meant he had to handle the iicsa processes and he d devoted considerable time to victims and survivors we are so grateful to you for that he said referring to peter s deep pastoral care and heartfelt love for survivors and victims you have ministered through the example of illness not in the way you would have hoped was a memorable phrase he used and on the screen i could see jane nodding as justin said it was a heavy burden non bath and wells readers indulge me with this little slideshow of images the archbishop used in his tribute bishops palace croquet pancake race day peter jane and juno the cake thief peter on glasto main stage at home in somerset unable to clap in the usual way we were encouraged to use zoom s yellow handclap icon and we did applause the zoom yellow hands are raised to thank those retiring in other news hopefully that was the last ever zoom synod for all the possibilities of online meeting and voting we have been making the best of a bad job it is very tiring even with sensible screen breaks and it ends up being a spectator sport rather than a genuine walking and talking together which is what a synod should be the church house team and the business committee deserve huge thanks for making it work and improving it as we went along they too will have missed the human interaction this two day meeting probably had too much business planned we postponed the revision of standing orders but debates still ran late and you know when the chair imposes a speech limit of one minute it s a sign of desperation fortunately there was nothing seriously contentious on the agenda the only motion with significant amendments and proper debate was the cnc item so most votes were almost unanimous i was not the only person to refer to it as a north korean synod i know members of the business committee read this blog so i ll put my two penn orth in now if we do ever have to go back to zoom we should arrange it so that agenda item numbers appear on screen as they do when we are in london or york at times it got hard to work out where we wre on the day s order of business if we have to change the order of business as we often do the chairs should tell us not just the item numbers being moved around but also the subject matter otherwise you are busy diving through the order paper or agenda to work out what you are being asked to approve but overall they did superbly the chairs of debates in particular kept their cool and kept us informed when tech issues got in the way or awkward customers chipped in unhelpfully all being well covid permitting we will meet again in person york for the final synod of this quinquennium actually a sexquennium if there is such a word many of us will not be standing for re election so it will be a time for reminiscence and farewells and the bathwellschap blog will compose its last ever reports if you ve forgotten this is what a real synod in york looks like full house in york the york star trek stage back bench view time out relaxing with the ducks concentrate relax york s meeting hall we ll be there july 9 13 th so sad to watch good love go bad a real weepie from the everly brothers in 1960 great two part harmony if you re not quite old enough to rememberit you can listen to it here posted in 2021 april zoom synod general synod tagged archbishop justin bishop peter hancock clergy discipline crown nominations commission safeguarding 2 comments see my friends posted on april 23 2021 by bathwellschap so another day another general synod on zoom there are various preliminaries that always happen at the start of a new synod session one is the welcome to new members or new postholders so after morning worship we welcomed canon joyce jones as the new prolocutor for the york province we love these titles i myself am a pro prolocutor deputy for the province of canterbury but few people know what they mean basically a prolocutor is the chair of the house of clergy it s a very ancient office and there is one for each province my latin is rusty but i think pro on behalf of locutor speaker so the prolocutors speak on behalf of the clergy they are elected by the clergy on general synod and become members of the archbishops council a serious and time consuming responsibility the two prolocutors but not their deputies also get speaking rights at synod joyce is a wise and experienced priest i am not in the least surprised that she was elected after other welcomes to new members instead of the traditional applause archbishop justin improvised by saying shall we all wave vaguely at our cameras as a sign of intense enthusiasm and we did all three hundred or so of us princely memories the archbishop of canterbury introduced a loyal address to the queen an item put into the agenda in the light of the death and funeral of the duke of edinburgh after the blanket coverage of the last two weeks there was very little new that anyone could say the archbishop referenced the funeral as something he would remember for the rest of his life he then reminded us of the queen s role as the head of the church of england we know what he meant and her regular involvement with the synod with her well informed and witty speeches on inauguration day every five years canterbury prolocutor simon butler spoke of the privilege clergy have of conducting funerals and praying for and with families something that is the same for the highest and the most ordinary people in the land clergy know about being put on a pedestal not of their own choosing by parishioners how much more it is true for members of the royal family rachel jepson gave an impressive testimony to the effect being on the duke of edinburgh award scheme had had on her as a young person leading her into a teaching career and many public services needless to say the motion was carried practically unanimously with 277 for no one against and 1 abstention responding to racism in the church as predicted in the week when the report from lament to action was published and panorama carried several piercing testimonies of those on the receiving end of racism in the church archbishop stephen cottrell s short presidential address dealt with racism in his characteristic blunt way he declaimed racism is a sin he went on to respond to the programme notably saying that non disclosure agreements should not be used in the church and outlining a number of changes that he and archbishop justin intend to put in place they include co options to the synod and observers at the house of bishops on screen the archbishop of york he repeated that modern cliché we must become the change we wish to see but the urgency of his tone indicated he meant it after such a powerful and critical speech the wise dean of southwark in the chair called us to a moment of silent prayer before moving on you can read the text of archbishop stephen s address here it s well worth a look what s on the agenda and what isn t robert hammond was introduced as the new chair of the business committee with a note that he is the first lay person to hold the role since synod was invented in 1970 there was a huge row about ten years ago when it was suggested that a bishop might take the role the peasants were revolting they did not like the idea of the bishops having what looked like a free pass to deciding synod s business the outcome of all that was the election of canon sue booys who has now stood down after 8 years as chair fond memories an in person synod in york everyone is on tenterhooks to know what is going to happen about our york residential meeting in july robert cheered us up by saying in effect that plan a is to hold the meeting in person plan b would be to revert to zoom if the government s plans for removing restrictions stays in place the debate on the agenda is always fascinating despite warnings from the chair rachel jepson that speeches must be about the agenda itself people ride their hobbyhorses or find a way to get a speech in early before a major debate people also legitimately complain if some topic has been omitted from the agenda in the chair rachel jepson to give you a flavour peter bruinvels pushed for a follow through debate in july on the implementation of the armed forces covenant citing the military s key role in supporting the nhs through covid and the commitments made sam margrave said we need to re think our accessibility 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