AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Rachel Browne
Not every Anglican diocese has robust child protection measures, with Sydney Archbishop Glenn Davies telling a royal commission the lack of national consistency is “extremely disappointing”.
In the final day of a public hearing into how Anglican institutions have responded to child sexual abuse, Archbishop Davies acknowledged that not all the country’s 23 dioceses had rigorous mechanisms in place.
“There has been a failure of the national church to have consistency across the board but it shouldn’t be forgotten that there are a number of robust systems in place in most dioceses,” he told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Counsel assisting the commission Gail Furness, SC, asked: “I take it there are some that don’t have robust systems?”
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