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By Kate Stowell and staff | ABC
The leadership of the Catholic Church has formally proposed a major shake-up of its compensation scheme for survivors of clergy child sexual abuse.
In a written submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, the church said it wanted the Government to set up a national scheme to determine claims and compensation.
The scheme would be independently run, but would be funded by institutions where abuse occurred.
Abuse survivors who had already received money under the Towards Healing and Melbourne Response programs would be allow to apply.
Francis Sullivan from the Catholic Church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council told AM the church did not want to wait for the Royal Commission’s findings.
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