AUSTRALIA
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
16 August, 2017
Two new research reports, released by the Royal Commission, suggest that a significant proportion of reports to police of child sexual abuse in institutional settings involved another child as the person of interest.
The research reports, Child sexual abuse in Australian institutional contexts 2008-13: Findings from administrative data and the follow-up study Child sexual abuse in institutional contexts: The reliability of police data, nature and allegations reported to police, and factors driving reporting rates were released today.
Prepared by researchers from the University of South Australia’s Australian Centre for Child Protection and the University of New South Wales’ Social Policy Research Centre, the reports explore the nature and extent of child sexual abuse in contemporary institutional settings.
The reports are based on administrative data from a range of sources including police and education departments.
The research found that police data was the most useful source of information to explore the nature and extent of child sexual abuse in institutional contexts across states and territories.
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