THE YMCA may be asked by the royal commission into child sexual abuse to look at whether two of its NSW senior managers are fit to run a child-safe organisation.
At a hearing of the commission in Sydney on Friday, the counsel assisting the commission, Gail Furness, cast doubts over whether the YMCA NSW was a child-safe organisation and whether its chief executive was fit to run it.
In a 105-page submission tabled by Ms Furness, she said evidence given at an October hearing into how the YMCA handled the employment of Jonathan Lord and subsequent revelations about him showed systemic failures in the organisation.
Lord is in jail for child sex offences committed over two years while he was employed at a YMCA centre in Sydney's south.
Ms Furness said the evidence given by senior and middle management as to the extent to which they accepted responsibility did not "permit confidence in their capacity to carry out the significant reforms necessary to make YMCA NSW a child-safe institution".
Evidence given by Liam Whitley, the YMCA's general manager for children's services, "raises a serious question about whether he is a fit and proper person to hold a position of senior management in an organisation that is responsible for the care and protection of children".
Mr Whitley reports directly to NSW chief executive Philip Hare. Ms Furness said Mr Hare's evidence also raised a serious question about his appropriateness.
Ian Neil, representing the YMCA, said the assessment of whether anyone was fit and proper to hold any position required not just an evaluation of particular conduct but of other relevant conduct and of their character.
Justice Peter McClellan asked if he would be troubled by a recommendation from the commission that the YMCA considered whether the men, as persons, were appropriate to the positions they held.
Ms Furness said if the commission was prepared to make the finding that the YMCA review their appropriateness, she would not pursue it further.
After an adjournment, Justice McClellan said the commission would not itself make the finding that Mr Whitley and Mr Hare were not fit and proper to hold their positions but would consider recommending that the YMCA look at their appropriateness.
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