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Sep 16th, 2025
Naming Harm, Building Culture: Spiritual Abuse and Safeguarding from Within
What happens when the person harming you speaks in the name of God? And how can safeguarding leaders respond when the culture around them is shaped by silence, obligation, or theological confusion?
Sep 16th, 2025
Desistance, Risk and Redemption: Rethinking Safeguarding After Conviction
When does someone with a criminal record stop being a risk? And how can safeguarding systems distinguish between danger and change without undermining safety?
Sep 16th, 2025
Why Inclusive Safeguarding Must Start With Listening
What does it mean to create a safeguarding policy that truly reflects the lives of those it is designed to protect? And how can faith communities shift from surface-level inclusion to frameworks that acknowledge power, difference, and marginalisation?
Sep 16th, 2025
Theology and Safeguarding: Faith in Practice
In this second interview for the Faithful Safeguarding series, I speak with Professor Marcus Pound, theologian and member of the Global Safeguarding Alliance. His recent work, The Cross of the Moment, explores the lived experience of abuse within Catholic communities and asks how theology can inform better safeguarding practice.
Sep 15th, 2025
Safeguarding in Faith Communities – Episode 1
Safeguarding is often described in policies and procedures as if it were a fixed set of rules, but in our first episode of the Faithful Safeguarding podcast, Professor Jo Clarke invites us to go deeper into the emotional heart of safeguarding, and the cultural challenges of doing it well, especially within faith settings.
Apr 11th, 2025
How getting inside the criminal mind led to helping employees to thrive
There are lots of ways that leaders can support staff. But the first step is to understand what wellbeing is. It’s not just putting out a bowl of fresh fruit, offering lunchtime yoga or holding an annual staff party. These are all lovely… but they’re unlikely to help your staff to thrive.