UNITED KINGDOM
The Tablet
13 March 2015
A leading anti-abuse campaigner has offered to lead the Vatican’s child protection commission in Rome.
Peter Saunders, the outgoing Chief Executive of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac), is already a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and Vulnerable Adults.
But in an interview with The Tablet this week, Mr Saunders said he would like to see a beefed up commission office with an extended remit to deal directly with allegations of abuse.
Currently, the commission, which includes safeguarding experts from across the world, is staffed by just one priest, Fr Bob Oliver, and its next meeting is not due to take place until October.
Mr Saunders has said he would be willing to lead the commission office and work closely alongside fellow members including Baroness (Sheila) Hollins, professor of the psychiatry of learning disability at St George’s Hospital, London and Marie Collins, an Irish abuse survivor and campaigner.
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