A report by Ian Elliott, an expert in child
safeguarding, has found "repeated failures" by clergy and bishops in the
Church of England to deal with reports by survivors of child abuse.
A
single survivor of child sex abuse told "over 40 members of the clergy
during the 1970s, 80s, 90s and 2000s" of sexual abuse he had suffered at
the hands of a senior member of the Church of England, but failed to
receive an adequate response – including from people in "very senior
positions within the Church" and the office of Justin Welby, the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
