A resolution of the United Methodist Church's General Conference, originally adopted in April 1996 and most recently amended and readopted in 2016, calling on congregations to screen adult workers, keep two or more unrelated adults present during children's activities, and carry liability insurance covering sexual abuse.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the United Methodist Church's own adopted General Conference resolution, a primary institutional record of its own policy. NotesTier 1: the denomination's own General Conference resolution, published on its own umc.org domain, and the denomination's own account of its prevention policy rather than an outside body's finding about it.
Citation
PublisherThe United Methodist Church, General Conference
Publication Year1996
URLhttps://www.umc.org/en/content/book-of-resolutions-reducing-the-risk-of-child-sexual-abuse-in-the-church
Source Typechurch body
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- Denominations, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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