The church is being promoted as a “place of safety and healing”.

From here:

With imagination, empathy and will, our churches can be places of safety and healing. This was the conclusion of the Revd Dr Marie Fortune’s keynote address on the first day of the Partnering for Prevention conference taking place 23 to 26 June on the campus of Victoria University in British Columbia, Canada.

The conference, organised by the Anglican Safe Church Consultation, has gathered 60 safeguarding officers and other Anglicans and ecumenical partners concerned with power, abuse and gender issues in the church.
Dr Fortune reflected on the long history of the powerful exploiting the vulnerable and of impunity in church settings but affirmed that the silence has been broken and there is now no going back.

There were no easy answers to the causes of abusive behaviour, she said, but a number of factors contributed to its perpetuation and to the failure of those in authority to protect vulnerable children and adults. These included the absence of a critical and robust sexual ethic grounded in concern for the well-being of our people.

This is more an attempt at damage control than it is one of healing those who have been abused by the church. It seems to me be blunderingly clumsy, though: why would a person who has been abused by an institution return to it for “healing”? It is like a doctor who has left a scalpel inside someone expecting him to return so the doctor could try again.

Considering the Anglican Church’s determination to continue employing homosexual priests, I can’t help wondering whether future abuse might be of a Roman Catholic flavour.