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Overview Report

National Board for Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church
April 4, 2017

https://www.safeguarding.ie/images/Pdfs/Overview_Report_-_Reviews_5_April_.pdf

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Overview of Safeguarding Practice Arising from Four Child Safeguarding

Reviews.

The final four Child Safeguarding Reviews, assessed against the Church’s 2009 Safeguarding Children Standards were conducted in 2015/6, but publication of the resulting Review Reports was deferred due to the statutory Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) taking place in Northern Ireland. The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland (NBSCCCI) agreed not to release the four reports back to the religious orders in question until the HIA had reported.

The four Church Bodies are:

* Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers)

* Order of Canons Regular of Premontre (Norbertines)

* Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd

* Sisters of Nazareth (Irish Region)

Information about the four Orders is already in the public domain through the publication of the HIA Report in January 2017. The Review Reports produced by the NBSCCCI do not seek to replicate or reference the information or findings contained within the HIA Report.

They are instead assessments of practice at the time of each review against the Church’s Child Safeguarding Standards.

Three of the four reports highlight concerns relating to weak or, on occasion, poor practice which require urgent corrective action. In the three Church bodies that those reports cover - the De La Salle Brothers, Norbertines and Nazareth Sisters - the records relied on were not well maintained, making the work of the reviewers difficult.

However, all four Church bodies, have now adopted the revised Safeguarding Children Policy and Standards for the Catholic Church in Ireland 2016; and three have signed a memorandum of understanding with the NBSCCCI, which commits them to complying with the Church’s policy and standards; while the fourth, Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, is in process of doing so.

 

 

 

 

 




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