IRELAND
Irish Independent
Sarah MacDonald
PUBLISHED
28/10/2014
The independence of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church’s review process has been called into question by its former CEO.
Safeguarding consultant, Ian Elliott, who headed up the NBSCCCI for six years, has called on the catholic bishops and the other bodies sponsoring the National Board to create a means through which safeguarding practice in the church “can be independently examined”.
Mr Elliott told the Irish Independent that the issue of the National Board’s independence was “a critical one”.
Writing in his blog ‘The Basis for Trust’, Ian Elliott also questioned the current requirement for the NBSCCCI to get consent from the diocese or congregation it is investigating.
“It cannot be forced on them,” he explains as the National Board has no right of entry or power to inspect if it is not invited to do so by the subject.
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