Last month saw the publication of the final tranche
of reports from the first phase of reviews by the Irish Church’s
safeguarding board, and the overall picture, according to board head
Teresa Devlin, is one of steady progress.
“You really need to look at the detail of the reports to
see that some orders took a while to get the culture of safeguarding
embedded,” she explains, continuing, “the Church has had guidance in
place since 1996 and the first set of National Board standards were in
2008, and it probably wasn’t until 2012 that some of them started to put
proper standards around their practices and report sharply to the
Guards and the HSE. Others of course hit the ground running much longer
before that.”
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