Progress Good But Not Consistent
10th December 2013
The Fourth Tranche of the Reviews of Safeguarding practice across the Catholic Church was released today by the seven Church authorities involved. They were the Dioceses of Achonry, Kerry, Ossory and Down & Connnor, the Archdioceses of Armagh and Cashel & Emly as well as the Christian Brothers and the St Patrick’s Missionary Society. This brings the total of Church authorities reviewed to date by this process to 27.
T he National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church ( NBSCCCI) has overall responsibility for monitoring practice in the area of safeguarding and protection of children and young persons in the Church. The Board has advertised the post of Chief Executive Officer. This is a fixed term three year post.
The Safeguarding Office has now published its Autumn newsletter giving an update on all safeguarding work since last April. Included in this issue is a section on Practice matters which gives clarification on different issues where advice from the National Office has been sought.
Clarification of HSE training in relation to NBSCCCI Training Materials
Following a meeting with Boyd Dodds (HSE National Lead for mplementation of Children First) NBSCCCI can confirm that HSE plans for modular training written by HSE and delivered by HSE trained trainers will not supercede NBSCCCI current training materials .
