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A snapshot of the First National Action Plan’s themes and measures

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Theme 1: Awareness raising, education and building child safe cultures

Measures:

  1. Implement and promote the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations
  2. Set up an ongoing national annual reporting framework for non-government organisations to report on their progress to create and maintain child safe cultures
  3. Enhance national arrangements for sharing child safety and wellbeing information
  4. Support the provision of resources for teachers, children and young people’s education in areas focused on wellbeing, relationships and safety, including online safety
  5. Work with the National Centre to develop and deliver education and capacity-building measures
  6. Deliver a national awareness raising campaign on child sexual abuse

Theme 2: Supporting and empowering victims and survivors

Measures:

  1. Deliver a website and helpline to assist victims and survivors to access help and information
  2. Deliver a trauma-aware, healing-informed and culturally appropriate resource to improve early disclosure experiences of, and access to specialist services for, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims and survivors
  3. Enhance legislative protections for vulnerable witnesses
  4. Set up a national support service for non-offending family members of child sexual abuse perpetrators
  5. Share opportunities to improve child witness interviewing

Theme 3: Enhancing national approaches to children with harmful sexual behaviours

Measures:

  1. Set up a National Clinical Reference Group
  2. Develop national standards for responding to, supporting and safeguarding children with harmful sexual behaviours
  3. Set up a national clinical framework for responding to children with harmful sexual behaviours
  4. Increase workforce capability for preventing and responding to children with harmful sexual behaviours
  5. Support the community to better understand and respond to developmentally appropriate sexual behaviours and harmful sexual behaviours in children

Theme 4: Offender prevention and intervention

Measures:

  1. Embed members of all Australian and New Zealand police forces in the Australian Federal Police-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation
  2. Implement a National Victim Identification Framework for online child sexual abuse
  3. Deliver a Digital Field Triage Tool and Training Program
  4. Set up a victim coordinator liaison capability
  5. Launch an offender prevention service for adults who have sexual thoughts about children or young people
  6. Progress legislative reforms to the Uniform Evidence Law. Explore operational reforms for securing digital evidence

Theme 5: Improving the evidence base

Measures:

  1. Develop and deliver a Strategic Child Safety Research Agenda
  2. Complete a baseline analysis of specialist and community support services for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse
  3. Set up a monitoring and evaluation framework under the National Strategy
  4. Complete a monitoring and evaluation data feasibility assessment study
  5. Develop an evaluation framework on the implementation and effectiveness of the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations
  6. Conduct a second wave of the Australian Child Maltreatment Study
  7. Develop a scoping study for, and establish, an Australian Child Wellbeing Data Asset

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National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse 2021-2030

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