AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Elle Hunt
@mlle_elle
Friday 4 November 2016
A new national compensation scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse has been designed to have “maximum reach to Australian victims”, the social services minister has said.
Survivors may be entitled to up to $150,000 each under the scheme, which Christian Porter announced on behalf of the federal government in Perth on Friday.
States, territories and institutions , including churches and charities, will be able to opt in to the scheme, which will be run by the commonwealth.
Members of the scheme would opt in on the understanding that they fund the cost of their own eligible redress claims, in accordance with the recommendations of the royal commission into institutional child abuse made late last year.
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