AUSTRALIA
Pro Bono Australia
Posted: Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Author: Xavier Smerdon
Charities, governments and churches will be expected to pay $4 billion to the victims of child sexual abuse under recommendations made by a Royal Commission.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse released its report on redress and civil litigation this week.
Among the 99 recommendations, the Commission has proposed a single $4 billion national redress scheme established by the Australian Government with a minimum payment of $10,000, a maximum of $200,000 with an anticipated average payment of $65,000.
The Commission has estimated there are likely to be some 60,000 eligible survivors and the scheme should be up and running by July 2017.
“We became aware early on that redress was a matter of priority to survivors of child sexual abuse,” Royal Commission CEO, Philip Reed, said.
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