AUSTRALIA
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Sydney’s Anglican Archbishop has expressed his ‘profound disappointment’ at what he says are less than robust child protection systems in some of the country’s dioceses.
Archbishop Glenn Davies told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse not all of the nation’s 23 dioceses had implemented policies suggested by the church.
“I take it there are some (dioceses) that don’t have robust systems?” counsel assisting Gail Furness SC asked him in Sydney on Wednesday.
“That would be true,” Archbishop Davies replied.
The royal commission has previously heard a persistent culture of diocesan independence has hampered the nationwide implementation of a consistent Anglican misconduct regime.
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