GC33 Child Sexual Abuse (1990C372)

This 33rd General Council urges that all conferences become aware of current studies of child abuse, such as the Rix Rogers, and that they give consideration to the recommendations directed to the churches in this report and that all conferences be asked to assess the adequacy of abuse counselling in their own boundaries;

And that this 33rd General Council speak urgently of the needs to their political representatives urging them to give them priority as needed. 

 

GC33 1990 ROP, pp. 182-183

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