This Commission of Inquiry was prompted by a groundswell of community concern in 2019–20 over child sexual abuse in Tasmanian Government institutions. It followed media reporting of incidents of abuse and inadequacies in the Government’s response to these incidents.

This resource provides a set of principles and benchmarks to promote safe and effective service provision for individuals who have been impacted by child sexual abuse.

This study reviews initiatives that aim to prevent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) offending, including evidence of effectiveness. Information was sourced via a literature search and input from an international expert advisory group.

Safeguarding Services is a suite of support services offered to organisations who deliver services to children and young people. The Centre for Social Impact at the University at the Western Australia was engaged by the Australian Childhood Foundation to examine and document the social impact story of Safeguarding Services. This report outlines the findings.

The authors of this report analysed the chat logs of seven Australia-based men who had committed 145 child sexual abuse (CSA) live streaming offences, to examine the overlap between this offending, contact sexual offending and engagement with child sexual abuse material (CSAM).