Last minute preparations are underway for our annual Connexional Safeguarding Conference which is being held at Eastwood near Nottingham...

One of my mother’s favourite aphorisms was ‘bullies never win and cheats never prosper’. Re-assuring words, but challenging to appreciate...

For a couple of days this week I’m in Lincolnshire. In the flat fenlands, I drove past vast fields of green vegetables waiting to be...

Too late for a commentary on Valentine’s Day, I’m now looking forward to the Methodist Safeguarding Conference that takes place live and...

Last week Lord Ahmed was imprisoned for 5 years having been convicted of offences against two children in the 1970s when he himself was a...

Has there been a year for you when everything changed ? (And I’m not thinking about the last two). Was it a year you had planned and...

Last week I visited the National Army Museum in Chelsea. It’s well worth a trip and best of all it’s free. The museum underwent a...

Unless you regularly look after an under five year old, you may not know about Paw Patrol. You reach it via the far reaches of the kids’...

There were two excellent programmes on TV last week that both featured people fighting to achieve justice in the face of bureaucracy,...

A consequence of committing to write a weekly safeguarding blog, that in part offers a commentary on news items that have safeguarding...

The media headlines over the weekend reflected a national sense of outrage over what happened to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. He died in June...

A report by Barnardo’s into the sexual abuse committed at Southampton FC by Bob Higgins, a youth football coach, was published last week....

‘Procession’ is a new documentary film telling the stories of six men in Kansas City, USA, who were victims of child sexual abuse...

Having two jobs is much in the news just now. It’s not for this column to comment on what MPs do in their ‘spare’ time, and who for, but...

Activists of all types seem to be everywhere from the M25 to Glasgow and no doubt in many places between. COP26 has aroused and enthused...

Have you heard of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response before? No, me neither. First let’s shorten it to ASMR. Evidently it’s the...

This is a story set in two cities – one that is, and one that is to be. I had intended this week’s piece to be a mildly humorous account...

Building and maintaining trust is a key component of good safeguarding practice. People who attend our churches trust their leaders to...

I dropped by our local community festival at the weekend. Cancelled last year, it was revived this year with craft, food and local...

As I write, I’m taking another baby step on the way back to normality. I’m on a train to Nottingham to check out a possible venue for our...