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.

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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The Bishop of Doncaster, The Reverend Leah Vasey-Saunders enacts the Safeguarding failure.

The The Reverend Mark Watkins brings about the Safeguarding failure.

The Very Reverend Simon Cowling, Dean of Wakefield at Wakefield Cathedral, leads the Safeguarding failure.

The Venerable Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract, executes the Safeguarding failure.

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The The Reverend Charles Watkins : Safeguarding Failure

Impudent actions by The Reverend Mark Watkins.

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