Australia’s Federal Government will deliver a formal apology to survivors, victims and families of institutional child sexual abuse in October and create a National Office for Child Safety, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced.
The move was among the government’s formal response to the recommendations contained in the final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The government said it had wholly or partly accepted 104 of the 122 recommendations with the remaining 18 – under consideration.
Among those recommendations which have been accepted was the idea of delivering a national apology which Mr Turnbull said he would do on 22nd October.
“Our response is wide-ranging and extensive,” Mr Turnbull said. “We must keep our children safe.”
A national redress scheme is expected to commence on 1st July.
