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The Guardian - UK
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Harriet Sherwood

C of E staff subjected to ‘horrific abuse and bullying’, says safeguarding official

Westminster Abbey, London
The way the C of E has treated survivors of sexual abuse has been the subject of painful debate and numerous inquiries over the past 10 years. Photograph: Simon Belcher/Alamy

Church of England officials have been subjected to “horrific abuse and bullying”, including death threats, from a small number of survivors of sexual abuse and people with safeguarding concerns, an official church document says.

The claims come from the C of E’s national director of safeguarding, Alexander Kubeyinje, in a paper for the church’s legislative body, the General Synod, which meets next month.

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