National Office for Child Safety
Let’s turn conversation into action
If children and young people spend time with your organisation, child safety is your responsibility. The National Principles for Child Safe Organisations help make child safety part of everyday decisions.
Prevention starts with conversations
You are the right person to have conversations with the people in your life about preventing child sexual abuse. There are tools and resources to help you.
Impact of child sexual abuse
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) uncovered the hidden nature, complex causes and significant impacts of child sexual abuse in institutions in Australia. During the Royal Commission's private sessions, victims and survivors reported 3 main impacts of institutional child sexual abuse:
95
%
Mental health
67
%
Relationships
56
%
Education and finances
Latest updates
The Australian Government has awarded a contract to Australian Childhood Foundation to establish and deliver a national information and referral service to support victims and survivors.
We have engaged the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children Australia Ltd to develop trauma-informed training resources to enhance law enforcement engagement with non-offending family members of child sexual abuse perpetrators.
Applications are now open on GrantConnect for a grant opportunity to establish Australia’s first national service to support non-offending family members of child sexual abuse perpetrators. Applications will be open for six weeks and will close on 3 July 2026.
The National Office is in the process of seeking a supplier to develop trauma-informed training resources to enhance law enforcement engagement with non-offending family members of perpetrators of child sexual exploitation and abuse under Measure 10 of the First National Action Plan to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse.