Key members of Clifton safeguarding team quit

From The Tablet 28 January 2012 (see http://www.thetablet.co.uk/latest-news/3779)

LEADING MEMBERS of the safeguarding team in the Diocese of Clifton have resigned ... Roger Bird, the chairman of the diocese’s safeguarding commission; Jane Dziadulewicz, the safeguarding coordinator; and Eugene Gallagher, the safeguarding officer, have all announced they have left. ... the departures come on the back of the resignation of Baroness Scotland as chairwoman of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission (NCSC).

Mr Bird, a retired judge who was chairman of the Clifton safeguarding commission for 11 years, has also resigned from the board of the NCSC. Declan Lang, the Bishop of Clifton, is vice chairman of the NCSC.

It is understood that the resignations are the result of a dispute over the handling of a priest in the diocese who was convicted for downloading child pornography. He was later accused, but not convicted, of breaching the terms of his sex offences order.

Mrs Dziadulewicz ... has begun a legal action against the diocese for constructive dismissal.

She has worked in safeguarding for 23 years and last year addressed the Anglophone Safeguarding Conference in Rome.