AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Alexandra Beech
There has been a spike in Canberra churchgoers seeking child protection training following royal commission revelations of past Australian child sex abuse.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has uncovered horrific cases of abuse and failures to report attackers across the country.
Assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn Matt Brain said it had led to a surge in interest in child protection training in the ACT.
“People will often come either with scenarios that they’ve heard in the media or scenarios from personal experience of when things have gone wrong,” Dr Brain said.
“We’ll often have times just of question and answer on how to deal with particular circumstances that have arisen.”
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