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Language is important in media reporting. Child sexual abuse is always the fault of the perpetrator, and victim blaming – including due to inadvertent use of poor language – is never acceptable.

The Summary of the National Strategy and its Action Plans is an overview of the National Strategy, the First National Action Plan and the First Commonwealth Action Plan. The Summary provides readers with the documents’ key contents and core messages.

Appendices featured in the Complaint Handling Guide available as individual downloads.

The Guide provides practical advice to organisations about how to develop, implement and maintain a complaint-handling system that prioritises child safety and promotes the rights of children and young people to have a voice in decisions that affect them. 

This resource includes ten steps designed to help adults understand their role, actions they should take, and how they can support children and young people to make a complaint.

Download the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations poster in English.

Every day you go to, and talk to, organisations, like your school, sports club, or arts group. Sometimes something might happen at the organisation that makes you feel unhappy or you may feel uncomfortable or unsafe. When this happens you have the right to speak up and tell someone your problem.

The National Principles for Child Safe Organisations set out a nationally consistent approach to promoting a culture of child safety and wellbeing within organisations.

Australian Government 2021 progress report on the implementation of the recommendations from the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Australian Government 2020 progress report on the implementation of the recommendations from the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse