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The article reports the Catholic Professional Standards Limited (CPSL) has published the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards that provides a framework for Catholic entities, ministries and organisations across the Australian Catholic Church on child safety being at the core of its plans, eighteen months after a groundbreaking report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The article discusses the existence of child sexual abuse in Catholic institutions such as Catholic parishes, schools, and children's homes and discusses the efforts of Catholic Professional Standards Ltd (CPSL) towards maintaining a child-safe church in Australia. Topics include the statistics on child abuse from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse and the child safeguarding standards developed by the CPSL.