Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

The state government has announced $64.3 million to help victim-survivors of child sex abuse as they navigate the justice system.

Twenty-four Tasmanian public servants have been stood down over child sexual abuse allegations in the past 12 months.

A new strategy to prevent and respond to child sexual abuse has been finalised four years after a royal commission recommended it. 

A new $22.5 million centre for the prevention of child abuse will be established by the end of 2021, federally funded for at least five years.

The federal government has announced $146 million in funding for the first phase of a new national strategy to prevent child sexual abuse.

They have until June 30 to join, or else their funding may be cut.

A new information-sharing platform designed to aid cross-border collaboration between child protection agencies is expected to be up and running by mid-2020, following a joint effort to develop the IT solution involving several governments and an IT company based in New South Wales.

The Department of the Prime Minster and Cabinet has published a guide for handling complaints involving children and “creating child safe cultures”.  Prompted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the guide outlines how to develop, implement and maintain a complaint-handling system that prioritises child safety and promotes young voices in decisions that affect them.