This report suggests that a new approach that seeks a deeper understanding of why errors occur would be more effective in encouraging safe practices in the future. Executive Summary: The failure to protect children from sexual abuse not only arouses shock and anger but also puzzlement: how could people who are employed to care for...

This report contains recommendations in relation to the provision of effective redress for survivors through the establishment, funding and operation of a single national redress scheme and the provision of a direct personal response to survivors by institutions.

Assesses the Archdiocese of Melbourne’s process for responding to those who have been sexually abused by priests, religious and lay persons within the Archdiocese of Melbourne. Summary The report of Case Study 16 follows a public hearing into the Melbourne Response held in August last year (2014). At the public hearing the Royal Commission heard...

The Parenting Research Centre was commissioned by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to evaluate the extent to which 288 recommendations from 67 inquiries selected by the Royal Commission had been implemented, and the possible factors that determined, contributed to, or were barriers to successful implementation. The report found that 64%...

The Letters Patent provided to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse require that it ‘inquire into institutional responses to allegations and incidents of child sexual abuse and related matters’. Under paragraph (d) of the Terms of Reference we are given in the Letters Patent, we are required to inquire into: what...