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The Anglican Diocese of Grafton's Response to Child Sexual Abuse at the North Coast Children's Home

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2016

Garth Blake SC
Garth Blake SC*
Affiliation:
Chairperson, Professional Standards Commission, Anglican Church of Australia
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In January 2013 the Australian Government established the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The terms of reference require the Royal Commission to inquire as what should be done to eliminate or reduce impediments that currently exist for responding appropriately to child sexual abuse and related matters in institutional contexts, including addressing failures in, and impediments to, reporting, investigating and responding to allegations and incidents of abuse. Further, the Commission is directed to focus on systemic issues and to be informed by an understanding of individual cases. In November 2013 the Royal Commission held a public hearing into the Anglican Diocese of Grafton's response to child sexual abuse at the North Coast Children's Home and in October 2014 published its Report.

Keywords

commissions of inquirychild sexual abusefailure to follow proceduresdisciplinary action
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , May 2016 , pp. 210 - 215
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2016 

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References

1 Available at <http://childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/documents/pef-creport-19-9-14-post-pef-copy-edit_final-on>, accessed 1 October 2015.

2 The Reports of the Professional Standards Board of the Diocese of Grafton which were given effect to by the deposition from holy orders of Reverends Kitchingman and Comben and Bishop Slater are not publicly available under the provisions of the Ordinance.