Cathy Driscoll

• Mobile telephone: 07930 631652

The Safeguarding Representative has special responsibility for promoting good and safe practices in all activities involving children, young people and adults at risk.

There is a Diocesan Safeguarding Commission and important contacts are as follows:-

Safeguarding Coordinator:

Mr Mick Thurley 


• Office telephone: 020 8505 4199
• Mobile telephone: 07429 215344

• Email: safeguarding.coordinator@rcdea.org.uk

Safeguarding Administrator:

Rebecca Bretherton


• Email: safeguarding.administrator@rcdea.org.uk

Find out more:

For Diocesan policies on Safeguarding please visit The Catholic Diocese of East Anglia website and The Catholic Safeguarding Standards Agency website.

In 1559, Queen Elizabeth I outlawed Catholic Mass rendering Catholics recusants (‘refusers’ who would not attend Protestant worship) served by priests ordained under Queen Mary. Catholicism was still practised and in 1625 the Pope appointed a Bishop for England. The Jesuit College of the Holy Apostles took charge of the Mission in Essex and East Anglia. Important recusant families include the Bedingfields at Oxburgh, the Jernighams at Costessey, the Gages at Hengrave, and the Huddlestones at Sawston.