Australian bishop' conference - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 06 Jun 2019 05:04:29 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Australian bishop' conference - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Australian bishops adopt new Safeguarding Standards https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/06/06/australian-bishops-safeguarding-standards/ Thu, 06 Jun 2019 07:53:03 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=118157 Last week the Australian bishop' conference and Catholic Religious Australia adopted new Catholic safeguarding standards to combat the sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults in the wake of a 2017 report on such abuse in the country's institutions. The National Catholic Safeguarding Standards were adopted on May 30. "These National Catholic Safeguarding Standards draw Read more

Australian bishops adopt new Safeguarding Standards... Read more]]> Last week the Australian bishop' conference and Catholic Religious Australia adopted new Catholic safeguarding standards to combat the sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults in the wake of a 2017 report on such abuse in the country's institutions.

The National Catholic Safeguarding Standards were adopted on May 30.

"These National Catholic Safeguarding Standards draw from the Child Safe Standards outlined during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and align with the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, but they provide additional criteria relevant to the governance of the Church," Sr. Monica Cavanagh, president of CRA, stated. Read more

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