From yesterday’s Sunday Times, Justine McCarthy wrote about the Children’s Ombudsman’s report on alleged physical and sexual abuse at a Co. Kilkenny primary school.
In March 2011, the administration office for the [Stay Safe] programme told the ombudsman’s office it had not provided training at the school since 1993.
The school’s child-abuse prevention policy, which was reviewed in March 2002 and applied at the time of the alleged abuse states: “The Stay Safe programme has been approved by the board of management as a teacher’s aid to be used in accordance with the Catholic ethos which demands that the law of God and of the church, and not the child’s feelings, be the guiding principle.”
In 2006, the year the abuse allegations began, a questionnaire was sent to all schools to determine how Stay Safe was being implemented. Had there been any difficulties in implementing it? The school replied “yes”, saying it had “examined it and use only what staff, parents and board deem suitable to [their] ethos“.
There you go now.
Complete Failure (Justine McCarthy, Sunday Times) [behind paywall]
“Law of God” – that sounds like something from an ancient Hollywood epic that gets put on the telly at easter FFS.
Whats it meant to mean – Ten commandments? stoning adulterous women?
Is there a “Law of God for Dummies” book I can read on the subject?
Should be with the voice of James Earl Jones – THE LAW OF GOD!
so as recently as 95 schools where still making a mockery of the law and parent’s will by bypassing common sense via stupid rulings of a board of management controlled by men in dresses. Of course, common sense prevails today.
“use only what staff, parents and board deem suitable”
Yeah right.
Minutes of a meeting or you’re – the school board – talking sh*te.
That wasn’t meant to go there… but I agree with Zynks seeing as I am here !
LOL, Clampers, I’ll have some of whatever you’re on.
This reads like a document a lot older than the dates presented. I was in a Kilkenny primary school in the dates claimed, madness. My children will be in secular schools and be allowed to make their own minds up about their faith, in Ireland or otherwise.
It’s all a bit of a mess, Catholic ethos and Christian ethos seem world apart.
Unfortunately, it will most likely be ‘otherwise’, not Ireland. For every place in a secular school here, there are around 70 applicants. Utter BS situation but that’s how it is.
Wow and WTF – 2006! This reads like something from 1950s Ireland.
*is ashamed to have been baptised*
I find it amazing that parents feel that their children are safe in Catholic Ethos schools…
They should all be sectioned under the mental health act for believing such nonsense and forbidden to teach or have dealings with children ever again.