Protecting children: A lot done but more to do

IT is disheartening, and unacceptable, that some male religious congregations have yet to comply with the Catholic Church’s child protection guidelines.

In the light of the traumatic and heart-rending revelations of recent years, it seems incomprehensible too.

Speaking yesterday, Teresa Devlin, chief executive of the National Board for Safeguarding Children, expressed her disappointment that “for the majority of orders, the whole area of safeguarding is only being bedded down in the last couple of years”.