We participated in sector consultations conducted for the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse in July and August 2022, related to the development of Minimum Practice Standards, for the Baseline analysis of specialist and community support services for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse project. We were thrilled that what our petition seeks, are included in those minimum standards.

The National Centre is currently seeking feedback on their Draft Five-year Strategy. "This Draft Five-year Strategy sets the starting point for what the National Centre intends to do and accomplish. It describes a collective ambition in which we all work together to:

• Empower, educate and enable families, communities and service providers to better meet the needs of victims and survivors of child sexual abuse across their life course; and,
• Inspire community, policy and practice change to stop child sexual abuse from occurring.

We know that we cannot achieve our plans without collaborating closely with the many national, state and local initiatives and plans in the making or already underway.

For that reason, the National Centre is seeking additional feedback from victims and survivors, service providers, policy makers and researchers, and the broader community to refine the focus and impact of the Strategy."

There are multiple ways to provide feedback, click on the link below for more information.

National Centre's Five Year Strategy

The feedback process ends on the 13th of January 2023.

We are requesting an opportunity to participate in one of the National Centre's feedback sessions, as we have done previously.

About the Centre

"The National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse (the National Centre) is an independent, not-for-profit organisation established to increase understanding of child sexual abuse, promote effective ways for protecting children, guide best practice responses and pathways to healing for survivors, and reduce the harm it causes.

The National Centre is a joint venture between Blue Knot Foundation, The Healing Foundation and the Australian Childhood Foundation with initial funding from the Australian Government. The three organisations have united to form an Australian-first partnership that will commission critical research, evaluate interventions and therapeutic programs, raise community awareness, reduce stigma and provide training.

The National Centre will give voice to the experiences of survivors of all ages, life stages and communities . It will work in collaboration with survivors, major research institutions, representatives from state and commonwealth governments, service providers, schools, and law enforcement agencies."

We look forward to continuing to engage and work with the National Centre in 2023, on behalf of our ~13,000 petitioners. Thank you so much for your support.