The Nolan Report is a report published in 2001 by

Lord Nolan Michael Patrick Nolan, Baron Nolan, (10 September 1928 – 22 January 2007) was a judge in the United Kingdom, and from 1994 until 1997 was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. In the words of his obituary in ''The ...

on the problem of clerical child abuse. In 2000, at the request of

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, he investigated the issue of paedophile priests and child protection in the

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. As a result of this report, the Catholic Church in England and Wales formed an agency called COPCA ( Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults) to centrally manage CRB (

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) applications. His Vice-Chairman on the committee was a fellow Old Amplefordian, Sir Swinton Thomas.

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