Dame Christine Ryan, who chaired Ofsted from 2020 until this year, will lead the Safeguarding Structures Programme Board, with a remit to implement the reforms agreed by the General Synod in February (News, 14 February). Synod members voted for a partial outsourcing of safeguarding work which would shift the National Safeguarding Team into a new independent charity. The lead bishop for safeguarding, the Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, Dr Joanne Grenfell, welcomed Dame Christine to the post, “confident [that] her compassionate and clear-sighted leadership will be instrumental as we develop the best of what we do now and create new safeguarding structures for the future”.