UNITED KINGDOM
Christian Today
Mark Woods CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 08 June 2016
The Baptist Union of Great Britain has written to its ministers about an investigation into historic safeguarding issues.
British Baptists are carrying out a review of cases of “inappropriate behaviour or abuse” by ministers in an investigation that goes back as far as the 1940s.
The Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) has reviewed 4,500 files covering everyone who has served as a Baptist minister, including those who have retired, died or been removed from the list of accredited ministers.
BUGB has written to ministers informing them that some files have been passed directly to the authorities and that others are now being scrutinised by an independent panel of safeguarding experts before further action is taken.
Its statement says: “Where, in the view of the panel, there is a clear case to consider removing a minister from the accredited list, these cases will be passed to our Ministerial Recognition Committee and handled using our normal ministerial disciplinary procedures.”
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