Religious charity told to create child protection policy

By Mathew Little, Third Sector Online, 3 October 2008

Watch Tower, the umbrella charity of the Jehovah's Witnesses, is to produce a child protection policy that will be binding on all the Christian denomination's charities.

The move comes after Charity Commission inquiry into the London Mill Hill Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. The inquiry was prompted by press reports linking convicted sex offender Michael Porter with the Mill Hill charity. Porter was an elder and trustee of the charity from October 2004, but was removed from...