Could there be an argument here for a “safeguarding regulator” either similar to how financial ombudsman service operate with complaints with finance or Ofgem with energy. Or taking over the complaint as an independent entity. Personally although I appreciate this is a religious slanted debate on this topic, there have been safeguarding problems in several youth groups over the years not just the church and including the ATC with the one of the most famous cases happening between 1981-1995, that individual was jailed in 2019. Safeguarding for RAFAC isn’t dealt with by an independent body unless social services or the police get involved. I think we as an organisation are naturally in a better place than the 80/90s regarding safeguarding etc but on the flip side, it takes one “bad apple” and cover ups could easily happen, if that was at local or Wing Level.
Isn’t that part of the Children’s Commissioner’s remit?
If anyone tries to cover up abuse they need removal from the organisation and charging with the offence of perverting the course of justice, assisting an offender or similar. A custodial sentence needs to follow where they can meet Big Billy in the showers!
Her job is to tell people why children’s rights are so important and to look at how the decisions made by public bodies in Wales, including Welsh Government, affect children’s rights.
Devolution. 
is this a dig at the idea of a children’s commissioners orrr?
Not sure if you’re aware but England has one as well and the roles are largely identical, except for Youth Justice (English one covers wales because Westminster is stubborn) and matters affecting specifically Immigrant children (The english one covers the whole UK, again because Westminster)
No, it’s a dig at devolution and how too many UK government appointments and some whole departments only cover ‘England’ now.
And? Scotland and Wales were just about sick of misaligned Westminster Governments during the Thatcher/Major years and again under Cameron- Sunak
so yeah Devolved powers are good for those countries
I’m ignoring NI because thats a whole different can
STOP TURNING EVERY THREAD INTO POLITICS
yup
Sorry boss…
But it can be difficult discussing devolved matters without referencing the politics behind it.
Compare Education in England, Wales and Scotland - it’s getting worse in Scotland, hugely so since it was devolved
Positive developments being made in Canada, supported across the spectrum of military chaplains for official ceremonies.
A bit more info.
Absolutely the right sort of step and seems to be exactly what I do to make any ceremony over which I preside accessible and meaningful to all.
In your opinion.
Thanks for that clarification…
And mine. I’d endorse a similar policy within the UK.
Did that really need commenting? The entire forum is well known for being full of opinions and I don’t think anyone was assuming it was anything but? There’s better ways to challenge it if you disagree with the actual content…
Likewise
The UK is not a secular country - the King is head of the CofE, CofE is the national regligion and I don’t know why there is a rush to take religion out of everything.
Constitutionally sure, but not socially. It may be the largest religious group indicated on the census, but no longer forms a majority of the country - less than half of census respondents indicated Christianity (and hence even fewer CofE, but it wasn’t broken down that granularly).
Why should we build something that has no inherent need to be religion-centric around a religion that the majority of the population, and thus the majority of our cadets, don’t identify with?