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The The Reverend Charles Watkins : Safeguarding Failure

  ( 2019/2020 )
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A whistleblower tells a story of multiple failures to comply with The Bishop's Guidance.
The failures bring disrepute onto Wakefield Cathedral and All Saints Church, Pontefract.

  • Impudent actions by The Reverend Mark Watkins.

  • Associate Priest at All Saints Pontefract.  ( September 2019 )
  • Mark Watkins believes the woman, makes no verification effort.
  • He fails to follow The Bishop's Guidance
  • He tell me that as neither of us are members of his parish, there is nothing he can do.
  • Superficial examination of the evidence.
  • Yet he closes down practices immediately.
  • Yet he defines the tower as "a safe space" for the woman.
  • In February 2020 I am excluded from ringing at All Saints Pontefract.
  • The stress and defamation he started still continues.

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