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	Church to Raise Funds for Abuse Victims Herald Sun [Australia] October 2, 2006 http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20512676-5005961,00.html The Anglican Church in South Australia will consider cuts to programs, axing staff and imposing a levy on parishes to help pay for child abuse compensation claims. The church has already paid about $4 million to victims after an independent report in 2004 found it was slow to investigate cases of abuse and its first priority was to protect the church. Now, with a number of claims still to be resolved, it is considering ways to raise more money. Adelaide Archbishop Jeffrey Driver said spending cuts, changes to programs and asset sales were among measures being considered. He said the hardest thing was the prospect of cutting staff. "It's very hard for people who work for the church who therefore, in some sense, become secondary victims of abuse," he said today. "That's tragic and sad." The fund-raising measures will be considered by a meeting of the Diocese of Adelaide Synod later this month.
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