The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse held 57 formal public hearings about child sexual abuse within institutions across many different sectors, hearing from 1,200 witnesses over 400 days, across all Australian capital cities and in several regional areas. These case studies focused on how institutions responded to allegations and proven instances of child sexual abuse (Royal Commission Final Report, 2017).
From this enormous body of work, the Royal Commission recommended organisational child safe standards to provide a nationally consistent approach to creating organisational cultures that foster child safety and wellbeing across all sectors in Australia.
The National Principles for Child Safe Organisations were developed by the National Children’s Commissioner and reflect the ten Child Safe standards recommended by the Royal Commission, with a broader scope that goes beyond sexual abuse to cover other forms of potential harm.
Through C3 Australia's partnership with Safe Ministry Resources our church is working to effectively implement and maintain these principles throughout our organisation.
