Friday, December 26, 2025

Beattie urges Presbyterian Church to ditch all existing non-disclosure agreements

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) has been urged to dissolve all existing non-disclosure agreements as it tries to forge a way forward amid the ongoing safeguarding scandal.

Ex-UUP leader Doug Beattie warned that legally binding confidentiality agreements make a “nonsense” of the church’s own appeal for potential victims to come forward and risk undermining the ongoing police probe.