Protecting children - A last throw of the dice

THE Catholic Church in Ireland, through the National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church (NBSC), yesterday published revised guidelines on child protection following the recent scandal over allegations of child abuse by clerics in Cloyne.

These are to be the only child protection guidelines in operation in the Catholic Church in Ireland.

They recognise that the Church has a responsibility to pass on a concerns about child protection to civil authorities even when the matter does not concern Church personnel directly.