AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The man who ran Knox Grammar School for 30 years has admitted multiple failures which put vulnerable boys at the elite NSW school at risk.
Asked about these failures, by counsel for the child abuse royal commission, former headmaster Ian Paterson answered ‘correct’, with the qualifications ‘in looking back’ or ‘in retrospect’.
Dr Paterson agreed he hadn’t delivered training for staff on mandatory reporting obligations; had no written policies on child protection; had no systems in place for interviewing or conducting reference or criminal checks for people applying to be housemasters and had never reported to police when students made allegations against teachers.
Dr Paterson was insistent he did deal fairly with a boy who complained he had been propositioned by teacher Damien Vance.
He sent to the 15-year-old to the library to think about what he had alleged, before accepting his story.
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