IRELAND
RTE News
Three of the four religious orders, whose reviews of child safeguarding have been published, have not really changed their performance in dealing with abuse, according to the Catholic Church’s abuse watchdog.
The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Church criticises the De La Salle Brothers, the Norbertine order of priests and the Nazareth Sisters for failing to put in place effective pastoral responses to people who have alleged they were abused by members of the congregations.
However, it says that in the last year the De La Salle Brothers and Nazareth Sisters have engaged more fully with the NBSCCI to improve the situation.
While the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity the Good Shepherd recently sent a member of staff to learn how to improve individual nuns’ understanding of child safeguarding.
The reviews were carried out last year and in 2015 but publication was deferred because the orders concerned were being investigated by Northern Ireland’s Historical Abuse Inquiry.
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