(Wednesday December 2nd 2015)
20 Reports Completed by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church and Published. Penultimate Tranche Shows Progress Continuing
With only one further tranche of reviews to be completed and published it is clear that Safeguarding practice within the Church has improved and this set of 20 reviews reinforces that.
O verview of Safeguarding Practice arising from twenty Child Safeguarding Reviews, including 3 male Orders and 17 female Congregations. The Reports being made public today are the second last tranche of reviews under the current methodologies.
20 Reports completed by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church and published penultimate tranche shows progress continuing. With only one further tranche of reviews to be completed and published it is clear that Safeguarding practice within the Church has improved and this set of 20 reviews reinforces that.
An overview report by the NBSCCCI of the implementation of recommendations by those reviewed in the 7th tranche of Safeguarding Reviews, reported on in February 2015
In September 2014, the fieldwork began into reviews of safeguarding practice of 8 male religious congregations and 8 female religious congregations. The 8 male religious and 1 of the female religious were assessed against the Catholic Church’s 7 safeguarding standards.