The Churches' Child Protection Advisory Service said the level of safeguards of many churches was "dangerously low".
In a survey of 750 churches across all the major denominations, it found that almost one in 10 had no selection process and accepted all that applied and only 34% took up written references before making an appointment.
A spokesman for the Church of England said that every diocese employed a child protection officer to implement its national policy on child protection.
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