AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
February 17, 2015
David Ellery
Canberra’s Jewish communities place the highest possible priority on the safety of children in their care and go to great lengths to insure abuses such as those exposed by the royal commission hearings in Melbourne will never occur here, say local leaders.
Rabbi Shmueli Feldman, of the North Canberra-based Chabad ACT, said he was grateful to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Allegations of Child Abuse and the victims who had shown “immense courage” by coming forward to highlight the issue.
Rabbi Alon Meltzer, of the Forrest-based ACT Jewish Community Inc, said the protection of the vulnerable was at the core of Jewish belief.
“All our volunteers, board members, staff and teachers have their Working With Vulnerable People card, and adequate training,” he said. “The safety of our children, of our elderly, of our disadvantaged, and truly of our entire community, is our primary goal.”
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