Tags: Child Abuse
NSS raises Vatican’s defiance of abuse inquiry with Foreign Office
Posted: Fri, 27 Sep 2019
The NSS has urged the government to hold the Vatican accountable over its continued failure to cooperate with a child abuse inquiry. Read More »
NSS urges UN to pressurise Vatican on overdue child rights reports
Posted: Wed, 18 Sep 2019
The NSS has urged a UN council to pressurise the Vatican to submit long-overdue reports outlining its response to child sexual abuse. Read More »
Domestic abuse campaigners given formal role at IICSA inquiry
Posted: Thu, 25 Jul 2019
Campaigners against domestic abuse within minority religious communities will be give formal roles in hearings at a child abuse inquiry. Read More »
Anglican archbishops severely criticised at abuse inquiry
Posted: Thu, 04 Jul 2019
Senior Church of England figures including the archbishops of Canterbury and York have faced severe criticism at the IICSA inquiry. Read More »
NSS questions NSPCC’s child abuse guidance for 'Jewish communities'
Posted: Tue, 02 Jul 2019
The NSS has challenged guidance which alters information and advice for those raising concerns about child abuse in "Jewish communities". Read More »
Mandatory reporting laws needed to protect children, say clerical abuse survivors
Posted: Thu, 20 Jun 2019
The clerical abuse survivors' group MACSAS has warned that children will remain at risk until mandatory reporting laws are introduced. Read More »
NSS welcomes child sexual abuse inquiry into religious organisations
Posted: Fri, 03 May 2019
The NSS has welcomed the IICSA inquiry's launch of a new investigation into child protection in religious organisations and settings. Read More »
Former ‘pope in waiting’ jailed for child sexual abuse
Posted: Fri, 15 Mar 2019
The Vatican's ex-treasurer George Pell has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for sexual activity with children in Australia. Read More »
Senior French Catholic cardinal convicted of covering up abuse
Posted: Fri, 08 Mar 2019
The most senior Catholic official in France, the archbishop of Lyon Philippe Barbarin, has been convicted of covering up sexual abuse. Read More »
NSS: government must push Vatican to cooperate with abuse inquiry
Posted: Tue, 05 Feb 2019
The NSS has urged the prime minister to raise the Catholic Church's failure to cooperate with a child abuse inquiry with the Vatican. Read More »
MP calls for mandatory reporting of child abuse during PMQs
Posted: Thu, 29 Nov 2018
The NSS has welcomed an MP's call for a law to require the reporting of suspected child abuse, including in the Church of England. Read More »
Abuse survivors sue Catholic order which ran children’s homes
Posted: Fri, 19 Oct 2018
Ten people are suing a religious order which ran two Scottish orphanages where many children were physically and sexually abused. Read More »
Protests highlight abuse and cover-ups among Jehovah’s Witnesses
Posted: Tue, 21 Aug 2018
Protesters have gathered in London to highlight "serious and persistent" child sexual abuse within global Jehovah's Witnesses groups. Read More »
Catholic Church covered up abuse of 1,000 children in Pennsylvania
Posted: Wed, 15 Aug 2018
Pennsylvania's Catholic Church leaders covered up the abuse of over 1,000 children by more than 300 priests, a major report has said. Read More »
“Establishment” helped abusive bishop evade justice, inquiry hears
Posted: Thu, 26 Jul 2018
Figures including an archbishop of Canterbury, politicians and judges helped a bishop who committed sexual abuse, an inquiry has heard. Read More »
NSS urges Irish PM to force pope to pay abuse compensation debt
Posted: Thu, 19 Jul 2018
The National Secular Society has urged the Irish PM to force the Catholic Church to pay a €7 million shortfall in compensation owed to survivors of clerical child abuse. Read More »
C of E’s “industrial-scale whitewash” of sexual abuse exposed
Posted: Fri, 22 Jun 2018
The C of E covered up sexual abuse by vastly reducing the number of cases it deemed to require formal action, according to a BBC report. Read More »
NSS names Phil Johnson and Graham Sawyer as Secularists of the Year
Posted: Sat, 24 Mar 2018
The NSS has named Phil Johnson and Graham Sawyer as its Secularists of the Year for 2018. Read More »
CoE faced 3,300 safeguarding concerns or abuse allegations in 2016
Posted: Thu, 08 Feb 2018
The Church of England handled more than 3,000 safeguarding concerns or allegations of abuse in 2016, according to newly-released papers. Read More »
Survivors say Church hierarchy failing to lead on child abuse
Posted: Thu, 07 Dec 2017
Campaigners say the Archbishop of Canterbury is being "evasive" and failing to offer "clear leadership" over clerical child abuse. Read More »
