AUSTRALIA
The Record
20 Jul 2016 by Marco Ceccarelli
One of the Catholic schools to receive much publicity about historical cases of child sexual abuse has become the first Victorian secondary school to introduce the “gold standard”, Keeping Them Safe program.
The Ballarat Courier last month reported that St Patrick’s College has worked with sexual abuse survivors in an effort to see the college have the “gold standard around child protection”.
Principal John Crowley said it would ensure the entire school community worked together on child protection in the wake of the Royal Commission into Institutionalised Child Sex Abuse Ballarat hearings.
He added that it was also part of the Victorian government’s new child safety standards that need to be introduced by 1 August 2016.
“We have to change the way certain things are done to ensure protection of children is at the forefront of everything we do,” Mr Crowley said.
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