We are delighted to welcome Danny Sullivan as a panel speaker for our House of Commons debate, “Religious Power: Risk and Regulation,” which will be looking at child abuse within a faith setting.
Danny is the Chair of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission for England and Wales. This independent Commission was set up by the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales following the review into safeguarding in the Catholic Church in 2007 by Baroness Cumberlege.
Danny has worked in the education and justice sectors. He was Director of Education for the Diocese of Oxford under Bishop Richard Harries. He worked as a senior civil servant with the Magistrates and Crown Courts in London for five years up until his retirement in 2008. Following his retirement he led a project for the Foreign Office and Ministry of Justice in Algeria initiating and developing judicial collaboration between the two countries.
Danny is also a retired Hampshire magistrate having sat in the criminal and family courts.
He most recently accompanied two survivors of clerical abuse in England to the meeting in the Vatican with Pope Francis.
You can read more about our event here and read about our other panel members here, too.
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Tracey’s blog on your twitter flicker- I can’t write for tears!
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Hi Dana,
Thank you. My experiences as a child with a mentally ill mother were in the 70s. As a grown woman, I understood more about her condition and accepted it as part of who she was. We had three years together and she was my mum. It’s a deeper loss than I ever thought it would be.
But, in 40 years we have not progressed as a society. My work today is based on those experiences both as a child and as a grown woman who ended up homeless and apart from my children, is an attempt to drag people into 21st century. In 40 years, I have seen little improvement apart from agencies tearing out their hair and stuck in a mire of statutory rules that do nothing other than create paperwork.
Totally off topic, apologies, Natasha, just wanted to touch base with Dana.
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Please don’t apologise, you’re more than welcome.
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Hi Tracy, it’s such a shame that more support is not given to those who have mental heath issues in keeping families together and if they cannot live together, that they are not ousted out and kept away from their children. I feel the not knowing is worse than knowing! I suspect the impact of the gamut of emotions you experienced could have been so easily lessened with a different approach!
I’ve already stated earlier on RR that government funding is really low and that has not changed over decades. The mentally ill are still put in the shadows and there is still a huge stigma attached by the ignorant. I wonder what is happening to cause the level of self harming and suicides that appear to be on the increase. I don’t believe it’s caused by internet!
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