AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
September 9, 2013
Annette Blackwell
AAP
Scouts Australia wants a national scheme of pre-employment screening for people applying to work with children.
Scouts Australia and the NSW Department of Community Services (DOCS) will give evidence at the first public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney next Monday.
Among the matters being investigated by the commission, which is looking at how institutions handle complaints and share information, is if the Working With Children Check (WWCC) needs reform.
The first hearing will deal specifically with how Scouts Australia, Hunter Aboriginal Children’s Services and DOCS handled allegations against convicted pedophile Steven ‘Skip’ Larkins, former chief executive of a foster care agency for Aboriginal children.
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He was also an adviser to the NSW government on child protection and a Scouts leader.
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