IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Mon, May 12, 2014
The Bishop of Meath Michael Smith has been praised by the Catholic child protection watchdog for his “commitment to and leadership in the development of very good standards in the child safeguarding policies, procedures and practices of the diocese of Meath.”
It said that “under the leadership of Bishop Smith the diocese has the benefit of a strong, dynamic and progressive safeguarding team.”.
It did recommend however that the designated liaison person in Meath should be a lay person and that the diocese’s advisory case management was “underused and under resourced and so have not achieved their full potential.”
National Board for Safeguarding Children (NBSC) review of child protection in the diocese, published at Dioceseofmeath.ie this afternoon, said “the dynamism, commitment and expertise demonstrated by all whom the reviewers came into contact with are highly commended”.
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