Titus Trust: ‘Power must be redeemed’

The future of organisations like the Titus Trust depends on whether they realise power must be redeemed as well as people, a psychologist who attended the Iwerne Camps has told en.

Dr Simon Walker, a Christian psychologist who works in school mental-health safeguarding, and who was at Iwerne Camps in the 1980s, was speaking after the publication of a report into the Titus Trust by independent charity Thirtyone:eight, which aims to protect vulnerable people from abuse.

The Titus Trust is successor organisation to the Iwerne Trust, which runs evangelical holiday camps for children and young people at independent schools. It has recently faced intense scrutiny following abuse scandals involving former leaders John Smyth and Jonathan Fletcher.