Abstract: This report provides an overview of the offences that an individual who sexually abuses a child in an institutional setting may be charged with in the nine Australian jurisdictions. These include contact and non-contact sexual offences, child pornography offences and offences for which institutions and/or their representatives that were aware of child sexual abuse...

In May 2014 the Commission for Children and Young People (the Commission) commissioned the Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare to prepare a short analysis of past and current responses to the sexual exploitation of children in residential care in Victoria. Following discussions with the Commission it was agreed that the report would...

In 2013, the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (Inc) (‘ALSWA’) received funding from the Federal Government to support the activities of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (‘RCIIRCSA’). Since its inception, ALSWA has been a strong advocate for recognition of, and reparation for, the various state practices of forced removal...

This report argues that the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has a limited scope that is symptomatic of wider gaps and silences in the national conversation about child sexual abuse. Executive summary: The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been heralded a new epoch in Australian life...

The Royal Commission has released its fourth issues paper, and is seeking submissions from interested individuals and government and non-government organisations about preventing sexual abuse of children in out-of-home care.