Courage, Cost & Hope: the Report on the Past Cases Review, 2013-2015

By A. Background
Methodist Church in Britain
May 28, 2015

http://www.methodist.org.uk/media/1683823/past-cases-review-2013-2015-final.pdf

The Methodist Conference in 2010 adopted replies to Memorials 35 and 36 that accepted the need for a review of past child protection cases, something to which the Methodist Council was already committed, and asked for a strategy for such a review process to be presented to the Methodist Council and for progress to be reported to the Conference in 2011.

The 2011 Conference approved the outline plan for the Past Safeguarding Cases Review (2011 Conference Agenda, pp. 119-129), which included proposals for a pilot to be based in the Wales Synod and Leeds District.

The following remit was agreed:

Remit – what is a case?

It is suggested that ‘case’ is defined as a ‘safeguarding concern’.

The Church of England focused its work, which started in 2007, on child protection cases. Since that date, the work with adults who may be vulnerable has developed in importance. The Methodist Church has just published a new policy ‘Safeguarding Adults’. It is therefore proposed that this review incorporate harm to adults.