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Measures to be taken by the Turnbull Government to standardise approaches to child safety and research to help prevent child sexual abuse in the future have been welcomed by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
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The Catholic Church has become the first non-government institution to commit to a national redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse. This follows the announcement this week that South Australia will join the scheme.
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No matter how much better informed the community and the Church is as a result of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the danger has not passed.
CCI Giving, the charitable foundation of Catholic Church Insurance (CCI), is today announcing its Impact Grants Program partnership with the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) for a new national grants program called ‘In a Good Place’.
Earlier this month, Archbishop Mark Coleridge was elected president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Currently the Archbishop of Brisbane, he previously served as an Auxiliary Bishop in Melbourne and as Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn. In this conversation with the ACBC Communications Director Gavin Abraham, he speaks about his appointment at a critical time for the Catholic Church in Australia.
No matter how much better informed the community and the Church is as a result of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the danger has not passed.
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