Benedictine Schools in the first round of cases to be studied by the IICSA

Justice Lowell Goddard of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has announced that Benedictine schools will be included in the first round of institutions to be examined by the IICSA.

Here are the relevant tweets from @IICSA_media

We’ll investigate @catholicEW and if the Nolan & Cumberlege reviews improved safeguarding & child protection #csainquiry

— IICSA Media (@IICSA_media) November 27, 2015

We’ll identify specific case studies eg schools run by English Benedictine Congregation, already subject of several inquiries #CSAinquiry

— IICSA Media (@IICSA_media) November 27, 2015

If you have information that you think is relevant to the inquiry, please contact them without delay.

I'll be blogging more about this when I have more details.

UPDATE: The IISCA's full statement has now been published on its website here.