Rt Revd Dr Graham Tomlin’s comments come ahead of a new report, ‘The social legacy of Grenfell: An agenda for change’, that will be published to mark the second anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire next week.
Bishop Graham said: “Grenfell is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to look at what might be wrong with our social fabric and try to fix it.”
The report has been created from a series of conversations by the Bishop of Kensington with local London residents, community groups, faith leaders and activists.
The report describes Grenfell as being a critical moment in both local and national life.
It states: “It shone a spotlight on a series of issues that we were dimly aware of, and yet often ignored.”
The report seeks to identify an agenda for change within society, which will be a legacy to those who lost their lives at Grenfell Tower.
Issues it focuses on include, welfare, becoming neighbours, providing homes and noticing faiths.
The report explains: “To extend the scope of the Inquiry to broader social issues would risk making what is already a long and complex task even longer and more complex.
“Yet if all that we do is to think about fire safety and building regulations, we will have missed a vital opportunity.
“In an episode in the gospels, Jesus was once asked a question about a tower that had collapsed in the city of Jerusalem, leading to the deaths of a…
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