IRELAND
Irish Independent
[Safeguarding Reviews 2nd Tranche – September 2012]
By Louise Hogan
Thursday September 06 2012
ONE priest was convicted of sexual abuse after 18 allegations were made against 10 priests in the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin over almost four decades.
An in-depth review by the church’s child safety watchdog, the church’s National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC), yesterday moved to issue 12 recommendations to make child safety structures “more robust” in the diocese covering 56 parishes from Kildare to Wexford.
While not highly critical of child safety measures, the board stated it was “regrettable” that not all of the suggestions to improve child safeguarding contained in an independent consultant’s report from six years ago had been followed up.
Monsignor Brendan Byrne, Diocesan administrator, said work was already under way on fulfilling the recommendations, including the appointment of a lay person as a ‘designated person’ on the child safeguarding team.
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