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Royal Commission Case 33 Salvation Army

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For the child taken, for the parent left behind

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'Let no child walk this path again' Royal Commission releases findings on The Salvation Army case study

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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has published the ‘Report of Case Study No. 5: The response of The Salvation Army to child sexual abuse at its boys homes in New South Wales and Queensland’.

The four boys’ homes in this case study were run by the ‘Eastern Territory’ of The Salvation Army and provided homes for boys who were wards of the State. The homes included Indooroopilly and Riverview in Queensland and Gill and Bexley in New South Wales.

The Royal Commission heard evidence from 14 men who as boys were residents at one of the four boys’ homes operated by The Salvation Army.

The Commissioners found that The Salvation Army did not protect the boys from sexual abuse in each of the four homes by officers or employees of The Salvation Army.

The Commissioners also found that The Salvation Army received more than 100 claims of child sexual abuse concerning boys’ homes and in most cases, the boys who reported the abuse were punished, disbelieved, accused of lying or no action was taken.

The public hearing also examined the actions of government agencies in Queensland and New South Wales: the relevant children’s welfare departments and police forces. The Commissioners found that from at least 1973, senior officers of the Queensland Department of Children’s Services were aware of frequent sexual activity between many of the boys at Riverview Boys’ Home, including occasions of rape.

In New South Wales, staff from the Department of Child Welfare regularly reported on the homes but rarely recorded allegations of child sexual abuse. The Commissioners concluded that abuse went unreported for several reasons, including limited interaction between visiting staff and boys, and that issues were not generally referred to the police.

In relation to the response of The Salvation Army at the time, the Commissioners concluded that The Salvation Army’s policies and procedures were inadequate to oversee managers who were, in some cases, involved in abuse.

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The Commissioners found that between 1965 and 1977, The Salvation Army’s policies and procedures did not enable the prevention or detection of child sexual abuse and The Salvation Army failed to provide appropriately trained staff to ensure an environment suitable for the care and safety of children.

The public hearing looked at whether the regular transfer of officers between the four homes allowed for sexual abuse to continue. The Commissioners concluded that the senior officers responsible for transfer decisions were often, but not always, unaware of allegations rather than deliberately trying to protect offenders.

The case study highlighted various systemic issues including the training and supervision of staff, mechanisms for handling complaints of child sexual abuse, reporting of child sexual abuse to authorities and record keeping in non-government institutions.




A copy of the full report can be found here 

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Catholic Church pays abuse compensation from grant interest

• DAN BOX and JUSTINE FERRARI
• The Australian

CHILD sex abuse victims are being compensated out of interest the Catholic Church earns from investing the billions of dollars it receives in government grants for schools. 
 
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has received evidence from a church whistleblower suggesting at least one Catholic diocese ultimately profits from interest received on state and commonwealth government education grants.
The Australian has also confirmed that the practice, under which the grants are compulsorily invested in accounts held within each diocese’s “internal treasury” or development fund, also takes place elsewhere across NSW, Victoria and Queensland.

Each diocese’s development fund acts like a bank, repaying an agreed rate of interest on the education funds they hold to the schools. They also pool this money with other assets invested with commercial banks at a higher rate of interest, often generating multi-million-dollar, tax-free surpluses each year.
Part of this money is, in turn, transferred to special funds under the direct control of each bishop and at least one regional diocese is understood to have transferred more than $1 million in this way last year. In some dioceses, these discretionary funds are then used to pay for the lawyers and compensation payments involved in abuse cases brought against the church.

Details of the church’s ­finances are rarely made public and the existence of this money trail has been criticised, including by those who have received compensation payments for such
abuse. Chrissie Foster, two of whose daughters were raped by a Catholic priest, said: “It shouldn’t be the government’s money, nor the parishioners’ money paying for all of this. It should be the church coffers, money from Rome or selling assets. Otherwise they’re just getting away with it. That (financial) loss focuses them to do the right thing.”

When the royal commission was announced in November 2012, the leaders of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference estimated the church would need to find about $60m to meet the likely legal fees and increase in compensation payments involved.

While there is nothing improper about the church’s use of interest payments to meet this cost, a church source said he had a “moral concern” about how the funds were managed. “I don’t know of any other organisation whose subordinates receive hundreds of millions of dollars in government grants and they’re compelled to transfer that money to a centralised fund which profits from it,” said the source, who has spent decades working in the church.

The development fund is also able to use the grant money it holds to lend money to individual schools to fund specific developments, the source said — money that is then repaid plus interest.
“That money that the bishop gets, he can do what he likes with it. He can fund his diocese or he can fund sexual abuse payments. I’ve got a big moral concern about it,” the source said.

NSW Catholic Education Commission executive director Brian Croke said there was an expectation and a legal requirement that any interest earned on government school grants was spent on education. “As far as the commission is concerned, all the funds from state and commonwealth are fully and externally audited at every level, and are paid and distributed for the purposes they’re designed, including the interest earned by those funds,’’ he said.

A NSW Education Department spokesman said it “does not prescribe to the Catholic system where funds should be held before being disbursed to the dioceses” but legislation “requires that funds are used for the running of the school”.

Catholic schools in the state are audited and the diocesan education system required to certify it “does not operate for profit within the meaning of” this legislation, he said. “If there is evidence that funds are not being used for this purpose or are being withheld or misused, then this would raise questions about compliance …

Any such evidence should be provided to the NSW government for investigation.”

As church organisations are not required to publish accounts, The Australian has not been able to establish how much revenue many Catholic dioceses generate in interest paid on education grants. The federal and state governments last year provided more than $6.3 billion in education funding to dioceses ­nationwide. Church sources suggest that after meeting commitments to schools, individual dioceses retained a likely tax-free margin of up to 2 per cent on their investment of this money. Only a fraction of these proceeds may be used to meet the dioceses’ liabilities for child abuse, the bulk of which are often reclaimed from the church’s insurer.

Nor is every diocese within the church understood to operate in this way. The Archdiocese of Sydney, whose accounts were publicly revealed for the first time during last week’s royal commission hearings, does not insist that all the roughly $615m education funding it receives annually be invested in its development fund.

The roughly $3m the Sydney archdiocese last year spent on “Special Issues” and other royal commission costs was also met from a separate Procurement Fund, which itself controls more than $426m in assets.
The archdiocese’s business manager Danny Casey said “The internal treasury, the Sydney Catholic Development Fund … does generate a surplus. The surplus has not been used to meet obligations to victims of abuse nor has it been used to cover the costs of the royal commission.”

Francis Sullivan, chief executive of the Catholic Church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council, defended the wider church’s use of money made from interest payments on education funding.
“If (it) is about using it for the purposes that the church is for, which is relieving distress, disadvantage and people who are underprivileged, then it’s justified. Certainly, providing compensation payments and repatriation payments for clerical sexual abuse is justified,” he said.

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Review payments to abuse victims: commissioner

• PIA AKERMAN
• The Australian
• April 01, 2014

INSTITUTIONS should review all payments made to children in their care that had been sexually abused, according to the head of the royal commission examining the organisations’ responses.

Judge Peter McClellan, who is chairing the royal commission, yesterday told a child protection workers’ conference that the question of whether a national redress scheme should be set up for abuse survivors was challenging but some institutions had already taken “significant” steps.

He pointed to a Salvation Army commitment to review all payments made to abuse victims to ensure they were fair, and a similar “opinion” from Cardinal George Pell regarding people abused within the Sydney Archdiocese.

“I suspect, and the Commissioners are hopeful, that as a result of the Royal Commission’s focus on this issue other institutions will respond in a similar manner,” Justice McClellan said.
“It is apparent from the work we have already undertaken that designing a fair redress scheme, assuming that one should be created, raises significant and difficult questions.

“We are listening to people whose lives have been damaged and in some cases destroyed by the perverted actions of adults, people who both they and their parents had a right to trust.”

Child abuse survivors have pushed for the commission to recommend a national redress scheme, and the removal of legal barriers that prevent successful lawsuits against organisations where abuse occurred.
Justice McClellan gave the Melbourne Childaware conference updated statistics on the cases brought to the commission, saying he had referred 141 matters to police.

Analysis of the 1426 private sessions with the commissioners shows that 62 per cent of people who told their stories were sexually abused in a faith-based institution.
Almost 35 per cent were ab­used as children in a school setting and 30 per cent of people were abused in welfare institutions, including orphanages, children’s homes and residential facilities.

Justice McClellan said 41 per cent of institutions mentioned in private sessions were run either by a Catholic order or diocese, while government-run institutions accounted for 21 per cent.

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The National Committee for Professional Standards (NCPS) is a joint committee of Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) and the Australian Catholic Bishops. 
The committee was established to oversee the development of policies, principles and procedures in responding to Church-related abuse complaints. The committee’s purpose is to ensure pastoral care for victims and survivors of sexual and physical abuse by church personnel.
It is responsible for developing professional standards among clergy, religious and lay church workers, both employees and volunteers. 
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