The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will now require background checks for British members who work with children.
The London Temple. The faith has adopted a new policy requiring Latter-day Saints working with children in the United Kingdom to undergo background checks.For years, British members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been“This is a win for activism,” said Douglas Stilgoe, a U.K. Latter-day Saint who runs the “
Mandatory DBS is something Sara Delaney, an English Latter-day Saint who is a retired social worker with more than 30 years of experience in addressing sexual abuse, has advocated for years. “I tried on numerous occasions to bring to the attention of the church leaders in the U.K. that we really did not have any adequate safeguarding procedures, and we were leaving the door wide open for harm.”
So she was surprised when, in October 2019, a solicitor for the church in the U.K. reported to the government’scommittee that over the previous 10 years, there had been “16 recorded allegations of sexual abuse made within the church in England and Wales.” Delaney and the members she had been talking to knew of more cases than that in just their small circle of acquaintances.So they embarked on a multipronged approach to highlight the problem.
,” to shine a light on the faith’s lack of safeguarding protections compared with other churches in the U.K.about their experiences with sexual abuse and received responses from more than 100 women and a few men who had either experienced it themselves or were writing about a family member. And, in an unusual move, they also sent a letter to every lay Latter-day Saint bishop in the United Kingdom.In the letter, Delaney said, “we gave them absolute clarity of the risks.” Not only the risks to vulnerable populations if the church did not step up its standards to combat sexual abuse, but also, possibly, to the bishops themselves.
So starting Saturday, DBS checks will be required for anyone working with children in the U.K. church .
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