Royal Commission into Child Abuse Heading to Wa

By Aleisha Orr
The Wa Today
January 7, 2014

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/royal-commission-into-child-abuse-heading-to-wa-20140107-30emu.html

Justice Peter McClellan and Justice Jennifer Coate during the first day of the public hearing in New South Wales.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will turn its focus to Western Australia in April.

The commission released a draft schedule of activity for the first half of 2014 on Tuesday.

The schedule includes private sessions, public hearings and roundtable discussions across Australia.

Public hearings into a local case study are to be heard in WA between April 28 and May 9.

Details of this case study, known as 'case study 14' are yet to be released, but will be made available on the commission's website closer to the date of the hearing.

A venue has yet to be determined.

The six-member commission, announced in January 2013, is inquiring into how institutions with a responsibility for children have managed and responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse.

It is investigating where systems have failed to protect children, and will make recommendations on how to improve laws, policies and practices to prevent and better respond to child sexual abuse in institutions.