AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Hopes for a $4.3 billion national fund to compensate victims of child sexual abuse have been knocked on the head by the federal government.
A submission to the child sexual abuse royal commission Canberra says establishing a single national redress scheme would be extremely complex and require significant time and resources.
‘This is likely to be frustrating to survivors of child sexual abuse and undermine confidence in the outcomes of the Royal commission’s work,’ it said in the submission published on Tuesday ahead of a public hearing in Sydney on Wednesday.
The commonwealth submission is one of 44 received by the commission in response to a consultation paper on redress published by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last January.
The consultation paper outlined scenarios for a national compensation scheme where tens of thousands of child abuse survivors would receive payments between $10,000 and $200,000.
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