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Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse : final report Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

Contributor(s): McClellan, Peter [Chair] | Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Barton, ACT : Commonwealth of Australia, 2017Description: electronic document ; 17 volumes.ISBN: 978-1-925622-49-2.Subject(s): CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE | ABORIGINAL & TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLES | ABUSED WOMEN | ABUSED WOMEN | ADOLESCENTS | ADULT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ABUSE | DISABLED PEOPLE | DISCLOSURE | FOSTER CARE | INSTITUTIONAL CARE | INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE | PREVENTION | RELIGION | SCHOOLS | HARMFUL SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR | TREATMENT | YOUNG PEOPLE | AUSTRALIAOnline resources: Final report website | Recommendations | Royal Commission website | AIFS summary
Contents:
Recommendations -- Preface and executive summary --Volumes: 1. Our inquiry -- Understanding child sexual abuse in institutional contexts: 2. Nature and cause -- 3. Impacts -- 4. Identifying and closing child sexual abuse -- 5. Private sessions -- Child safe institutions: 6. Making institutions child safe -- 7. Improving institutional responding and reporting -- 8. Record keeping and information sharing -- Support and treatment: 9. Advocacy, support and therapeutic treatment services -- 10. Children with harmful sexual behaviours -- Particular institutions; 11. Historical residential institutions -- 12. Contemporary out-of-home care -- 13. Schools -- 14. Sport, recreation, arts, culture, community and hobby groups -- 15. Contemporary detention environments -- 16. Religious institutions -- 17. Beyond the Royal Commission
Summary: On 12 November 2012 the then Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, announced that she would recommend to the Governor-General that a Royal Commission be appointed to inquire into institutional responses to child abuse. Following this announcement, the Terms of Reference were established and six Commissioners were appointed on Friday, 11 January 2013 by Her Excellency Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Hon. Justice Peter McClellan AM was the chair of the Royal Commission and worked with the five other Commissioners, Mr Bob Atkinson AO APM, Justice Jennifer Coate, Mr Robert Fitzgerald AM, Professor Helen Milroy and Mr Andrew Murray. Visit Our Commissioners to read their full biographies. On 15 December 2017 the Royal Commission presented a final report to the Governor-General, detailing the culmination of a five year inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse and related matters. (From the website). The recommendations and the 17 volumes, with summaries, of the Royal Commission's final report can be accessed from the website, along with factsheets for various audiences. We have also provided a link to a summary of the report prepared by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Record #5711
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Recommendations -- Preface and executive summary --Volumes: 1. Our inquiry -- Understanding child sexual abuse in institutional contexts: 2. Nature and cause -- 3. Impacts -- 4. Identifying and closing child sexual abuse -- 5. Private sessions -- Child safe institutions: 6. Making institutions child safe -- 7. Improving institutional responding and reporting -- 8. Record keeping and information sharing -- Support and treatment: 9. Advocacy, support and therapeutic treatment services -- 10. Children with harmful sexual behaviours -- Particular institutions; 11. Historical residential institutions -- 12. Contemporary out-of-home care -- 13. Schools -- 14. Sport, recreation, arts, culture, community and hobby groups -- 15. Contemporary detention environments -- 16. Religious institutions -- 17. Beyond the Royal Commission

On 12 November 2012 the then Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, announced that she would recommend to the Governor-General that a Royal Commission be appointed to inquire into institutional responses to child abuse.

Following this announcement, the Terms of Reference were established and six Commissioners were appointed on Friday, 11 January 2013 by Her Excellency Quentin Bryce, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Hon. Justice Peter McClellan AM was the chair of the Royal Commission and worked with the five other Commissioners, Mr Bob Atkinson AO APM, Justice Jennifer Coate, Mr Robert Fitzgerald AM, Professor Helen Milroy and Mr Andrew Murray. Visit Our Commissioners to read their full biographies.

On 15 December 2017 the Royal Commission presented a final report to the Governor-General, detailing the culmination of a five year inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse and related matters. (From the website). The recommendations and the 17 volumes, with summaries, of the Royal Commission's final report can be accessed from the website, along with factsheets for various audiences. We have also provided a link to a summary of the report prepared by the Australian Institute of Family Studies. Record #5711