AUSTRALIA
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
July 2016
Summary
The Royal Commission has been working to identify the key elements that institutions should adopt in order to be child safe. Through a significant scoping exercise, we identified a preliminary list of elements which we considered to be necessary in creating a child safe institution. We tested these elements through a research study that obtained feedback from a panel of 40 Australian and international experts. The panel agreed that the elements we identified were relevant, reliable and achievable. Following this testing process, we have confirmed that there are 10 key elements that are needed to create a child safe institution. We considered it timely to disseminate the child safe elements to assist institutions’ work on strengthening their child safe approaches. The Royal Commission’s final report will include an entire volume on making institutions child safe and recommendations about implementing the child safe elements.
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