SCOTLAND
The Tablet

20 September 2013

The new Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh who is to be ordained and installed tomorrow has said he would support an inquiry into clerical sex abuse in the Church in Scotland.

Archbishop-elect Leo Cushley, who succeeds Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him, is in favour of initiating a process to help develop child protection guidelines and support victims.

Following claims of abuse at the Benedictine Fort Augustus School and its prep school, there have been calls for an inquiry similar to the one conducted by Lord Nolan for the Church in England and Wales in 2001.

A spokesman said that Archbishop Cushley “believes that the Nolan Report was a very useful exercise, whose results pointed to recommendations that had been in place in Scotland for some time.”