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A short guide for editors and sub-editors on how to support journalists who are reporting on child sexual abuse.

The guidance includes advice on how to develop and frame stories appropriately, language and terminology to use and avoid, and sensitivities to consider when engaging with victims and survivors.

The National Office for Child Safety (National Office) developed a Child Safety Risk Management Guide and accompanying resources to support organisations to understand how to appropriately manage child safety risks.

Provide consultation outcomes that have shaped service design for the new national non-offending family member support and national offending prevention services.

Does your organisation engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children? Here are some new activities to help you understand their needs when building the National Principles into your practice.

Outlines key findings and recommendations to inform the development of resources that will support organisations to better keep children and young people with disability safe.

View the Child Safe Sectors Leadership Group members and their communiqués

Australian Government 2022 progress report on the implementation of the recommendations from the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

This report first provides an overview of stakeholder feedback received on the development of the National Strategy to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse. The absence of a trauma-informed, culturally safe, accessible and responsive service system to address the impacts of child sexual abuse was identified as a critical gap. The need to raise public awareness of child sexual abuse, reduce stigma to improve disclosure and help-seeking, and embed cultural understanding were also emphasised as important areas for the National Strategy to address.

This report comprises outcomes from written submissions, facilitated workshops and individual consultations held with victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and their advocates, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability and their advocates, child protection experts, clinical practitioners, non-government organisations, peak bodies, academics and organisations.