Mission Statement

Posted on 10. Feb, 2012 by in Clogher Diocese Child Protection

THE DIOCESAN MISSION STATEMENT Aims To raise the level of awareness about safeguarding children issues; To ensure to the best of our ability that all children in our care are safe and secure; To build confidence in our initiative as laid down in our policy statement; To implement proper codes of behaviour and procedures in [...]

Child Protection Policy

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DIOCESE OF CLOGHER CHILD PROTECTION POLICY The contents of this policy are based on: 1989   UN Convention on Rights of Child   1991   Child Care Act ROI   1995    The Children Order NI 1998   Protection for Persons Reporting Child Abuse ROI 1999    Children First ROI 2003    Co-operating to Safeguard Children NI 2005   Ferns Report ROI [...]


Personnel and Contacts

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SAFEGUARDING – PERSONNEL AND CONTACTS 1. Diocese of Clogher Safeguarding Children Committee The role of this committee is focused on creating, maintaining and monitoring a safe environment for children in all aspects of church life and activity and on advising on human resources required for implementing best Safeguarding practice across services. It has responsibility for: [...]

Contact Details for Reporting Safeguarding Concerns

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If you have a concern in relation to the safeguarding to the safeguarding of children or vulnerable adults, contact any of the following: Diocesan Designated Persons Monsignor Vincent Connolly PP  042-9663200 Mr Brendan Kelly 042-9741383 Fr Michael Mc Gourty PP (NI) 028 (048) 68628600 An Garda Síochana (ROI) Sexual Crime Management Unit, National Bureau of [...]


Counselling and Support Services

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SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN – COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES A new Counselling and Support Service for Survivors of Clerical and Religious abuse called “Towards Healing” has commenced providing services. This new service replaces Faoiseamh Counselling service which has been in operation since 1997 and which provided face to face counselling to nearly 4,000 persons during that time [...]

Forms and Resources

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You can download all the documents clicking on the PDF sign next to the title. If you have problems with viewing the documents please visit Adobe.com, download and Adobe Acrobat reader. Also with the Word sign you can download the original word document to complete the forms electronically.