UCA given green light to be in Redress Scheme
The Uniting Church in Australia has been officially included in the National Redress Scheme for people who experienced institutional child sexual abuse.
President vows to reach Commission benchmarks
UCA members have been urged to ensure the Church’s commitments to child safety are honoured as a landmark inquiry wraps up.
UCA child sex abuse figures revised
The Royal Commission has revealed a greatly reduced reported number of allegations of child sexual abuse within the Uniting Church than was indicated by previously released data.
Federal redress legislation
PENNY MULVEY The federal government introduced legislation for a national redress scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse in institutions in Parliament late last month.
Preying on trust
Rev Ann Key writes about how whole church and communities can be groomed to allow sexual, physical and psychological abuse to occur.
Royal Commission report highlights criminal justice
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse might have concluded both private and public hearings, but the work is far from complete.
Political uncertainty stalls moves to incorporate
PENNY MULVEY On 21 January last year the Vic/Tas general secretary wrote to assembly, the other synods, presbyteries and Church councils as well as all the reporting bodies and institutions of the synod to inform them of
Last child abuse public hearing to ask why institutions failed
Photo: Jeremy Piper The question of why incidents of child sexual abuse have been reported from 4000 institutions, and what effect this had on the survivors, will be the focus of the last week of public hearings by a roy
Failing the most vulnerable
I have read three books over the last few weeks – two works of fiction and one non-fiction – all with a common thread, the treatment or mistreatment of children.
UCA delivers apology and child safe pledge
Uniting Church leaders appearing before the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse have pledged to survivors to make the Church the safest place it can be for children.
Royal Commission Hearing Closing Remarks
On behalf of the Uniting Church in Australia, I sincerely apologise to all children in our care who suffered sexual abuse, of any kind, in our Church, whether it happened since union of 1977 or before that in our predec