The Engaging with media about child sexual abuse: For victims and survivors guide helps support and empower those with lived experience of child sexual abuse in their interactions with the media. These Guide has been developed with a trauma-informed approach that starts from the principle that media reporting should do no further harm.
This downloadable poster provides a snapshot of the 5 key principles to support victims and survivors and their families when engaging with media professionals.
The national Minimum Practice Standards: Specialist and Community Support Services Responding to Child Sexual Abuse provide a set of principles and benchmarks to promote safe and effective service provision for individuals who have been impacted by child sexual abuse.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) was formally established on 11 January 2013. It inquired into how institutions with a responsibility for children managed and responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse.
On 22 October 2018, Prime Minister the Hon Scott Morrison MP delivered the National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse on behalf of the Australian Government and all Australians.
On 13 June 2018, the Australian Government released its Response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It details how the Australian Government will work to keep children safe and support victims and survivors.
The National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse 2021-2030 (National Strategy) is an initiative of Australian, state and territory governments, and was a recommendation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It provides a nationally coordinated, strategic framework for preventing and responding to child sexual abuse. We led the National Strategy’s development and now oversee its implementation.
