Auditors warn: Bishops drifting on child safety

the authors of the study warned.

Among the most common problems the auditors identified:

•Allowing clergy who had been barred from ministry to lead public prayers

•Downsizing local child safety offices, partly due to the recession, leaving key tasks undone

•Failing to meet with leaders of all religious orders that have priests working in a diocese

•Not checking whether safeguards were in place on the parish level, despite a directive since 2006 to do so

•Failing to collect written notice from parents who decide to keep their children from abuse prevention training

The bishops

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