On 29 March 2021, a joint response from the National Safeguarding Steering Group, the House of Bishops and the Archbishops' Council endorsed the proposals of the Clergy Discipline Measure working group to replace Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 with a new set of provisions. Those provisions would include a disciplinary process and be accompanied by a mandatory code of practice (or similar), which would emphasise the standard of conduct which is required of clergy. The proposed Clergy Discipline Measure reform would disapply the 12-month time-limit for all safeguarding-related complaints. The Church of England also stated that legislation to reintroduce the power to depose from holy orders would be brought forward as soon as practicable. The joint response also supported a replacement provision which enables respondents to acknowledge their misconduct early in the process, reducing the need for victims and survivors to be subject to the delay and trauma of a tribunal process. The joint response stated that the National Church Institutions' Legal Office had taken steps to introduce new training for those who handle complaints in dioceses in connection with the special measures that may be required. The Church of England informed the Inquiry that it intended to present proposals for the reform of clergy discipline to the General Synod.