IRELAND
Irish Times
PATSY McGARRY
ANALYSIS: Despite progress, it simply beggars belief that three dioceses should still be laggards
IT WAS a better kind of curate’s egg, good in more spots.
But yesterday’s Health Service Executive audit of child protection practices in the Republic’s Catholic dioceses found that, despite four damning statutory reports, good practice in child protection still remains an aspiration for some dioceses.
It simply beggars belief that three dioceses in Ireland should still be laggards in this area.
Why, in 2012, is it still the case that Meath, Raphoe and Ossory should have “inadequate collection and retention of data” to do with child protection? Even while acknowledging that they too are “improving”. And Raphoe, in the bad books again?
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