Church Commissioners written question – answered at on 7 August 2025.
Sam Carling
Labour, North West Cambridgeshire
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church commissioners, how many rites of deliverances have been carried under Church of England deliverance ministry guidance in each of the last 10 years; and how many of these were children.
Marsha de Cordova
The Second Church Estates Commissioner
This is not a matter for the National Church Institutions and no data or records on numbers or type of deliverance ministry cases are held centrally.
The House of Bishops determines Guidelines for Deliverance Ministry and oversees resources and training for this ministry, but how deliverance ministry teams operate within dioceses is the responsibility of each individual diocesan bishop.
The Church of England has published the following information on its website about best practice in this area, regarding safeguarding, which includes children, vulnerable adults or where an individual is thought to be suffering from a mental disorder.
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