More on the Church of England report “Dignity at Work” from the Church Times a few months ago (regular readers know I don’t read the church press too often, so it takes me a while to catch up!)
Rachael Maskell, the national officer of UNITE, which has 2500 members in its faith-workers section, and helped to draw up the report, said on Wednesday that it deals with about 50 cases each year involving clergy who have been bullied. “Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to find bullying in the Church, and the Church needs to respond to this. We believe it has a moral responsibility to those who are bullied.”
She welcomed the suggestion of employing harassment advisers, and said that clergy who tried to implement change were often targeted by individuals in congregations who opposed them. “The Church hasn’t always been supportive enough of individuals who have been bullied, and we hope the report will change that.”
Dave Walker’s blog suggests that the report was hard to find on the Church of England website. I wonder how many dioceses are giving it space and publicity in synods, etc, and have plans to introduce its recommendations? No sign of it on our website when I checked. Googling “diocesan harassment advisors” or “anti-bullying policies” or similar does not produce much after coverage of the release of the report and press articles. But maybe someone out there knows different.
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