National Office for Child Safety
Prevention starts with conversations
You are the right person to have conversations with the people in your life about preventing child sexual abuse. There are tools and resources to help you.
Impact of child sexual abuse
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Royal Commission) uncovered the hidden nature, complex causes and significant impacts of child sexual abuse in institutions in Australia. During the Royal Commission's private sessions, victims and survivors reported 3 main impacts of institutional child sexual abuse:
95
%
Mental health
67
%
Relationships
56
%
Education and finances
Latest updates
The National Office is in the process of seeking a supplier to develop trauma-informed training resources to enhance law enforcement engagement with non-offending family members of perpetrators of child sexual exploitation and abuse under Measure 10 of the First National Action Plan to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse.
We have released an approach to market on AusTender to engage a service provider to deliver Australia’s first national pilot service to prevent child sexual abuse re-offending. This is under Measure 14 of the First Commonwealth Action Plan to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse. The approach to market is open on AusTender from 6 March to 29 May 2026.
The Australian Government has taken the next steps towards progressing work under the National Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse 2021-2030 by awarding Jesuit Social Services a contract to establish and deliver Australia’s first national child sexual abuse offending prevention service.
Applications are now open on GrantConnect for a grant opportunity for services working with victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and/or services working with children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviours.