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Fighting to prevent abuse, they successfully lobbied for a new policy requiring background checks and other safeguarding measures.
The London Temple. The faith has adopted a new policy requiring Latter-day Saints working with children in the United Kingdom to undergo background checks.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints repeatedly has proclaimed that it has zero tolerance for abuse of any kind. That’s all well and good, some British Latter-day Saints reasoned, but not enough.
They wanted their faith to do more, to undertake concrete reforms that could help prevent abuse from happening in the first place. So they launched a widespread public and private lobbying effort. They surveyed members. They wrote to their church leaders. They contacted national lawmakers.for any church volunteers in the United Kingdom who work with children, youths or vulnerable adults.
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