Support for those impacted by child sexual abuse in government schools. Have your say on reforms following the Board of Inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in Beaumaris Primary School and certain other government schools.
"The Victorian Government wants to hear from the community on a range of topics that relate to the recommendations of the recent Board of Inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in Beaumaris Primary school and certain other government schools.
They have developed this anonymous survey on Engage Victoria to help us to understand community views about a number of the Board of Inquiry’s recommendations. Your views will inform further work on these important reforms.
The survey will be open from 5 May 2025 and will close on 6 June 11:59pm.
Future consultation opportunities may include further surveys, in-person or online workshops, interviews, and working groups. If you would like more information on the Board of Inquiry implementation consultation process please contact the Department of Education’s Restorative Engagement, Information and Support team directly:
Email: REIS@education.vic.gov.au
Phone: 03 8688 7833
Text: 0473 847 503
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During May and June, the Department of Education’s Restorative Engagement, Information and Support team along with the Principal of Beaumaris Primary School will be hosting several informal morning/afternoon teas with any survivors and their loved ones or former classmates who have been impacted by historical abuse at Beaumaris Primary School.
The purpose of the morning/afternoon teas is to give people a chance to share their thoughts about what a process towards acknowledgement and a memorial might mean to them. We also hope they can be an opportunity for former students to ask any questions, offer suggestions or raise any concerns about the process or the memorial more generally.
If this is something of interest to you, please contact us on the details above for more information.
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You can go “back” to amend your responses at any time prior to clicking the “submit” button on the final question. However, please note that, once you submit your responses, you will be unable to change the answers you have provided. We therefore ask that you please read your survey answers carefully before submitting them.
By submitting your response to the survey, you acknowledge that you have read and understood all the information detailed in the collection statement below and you have agreed to undertake the survey.
Collection statement
The Department of Education (the department) on behalf of the Victorian Government is committed to protecting your privacy and is conducting this survey for the purposes of informing implementation of the recommendations of the Board of Inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in Beaumaris Primary School and certain other government schools.
The Victorian Government is committed to ensuring that implementation of the Board of Inquiry recommendations is informed by a wide range of diverse views from right across the community.
In this context, diversity includes a range of demographic features such as age, location, Aboriginality, culture or ethnicity, disability, gender, and sexuality. It also includes whether survey participants are themselves victim-survivors of historical child sexual abuse in a Victorian government school, or whether they are connected to a victim-survivor, or are an interested community member.
The survey will seek to collect this demographic information about you to allow for grouping and analysing of responses by demographic and diversity groups. Your disclosure of this information is voluntary and if you choose not to, you may select “Prefer not to say” as your response to these questions.
This survey is anonymous and you do not need to provide your name to participate in this survey. We ask that you do not include any identifying information (about you or anyone else) when completing any survey questions with free text sections. Identifying information includes your name (or another person’s name), contact information, or other specific details that might allow a person to be identified. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify such information inadvertently provided in responses to this survey, when appropriate.
The anonymous data collected in this survey will be used by Victorian Public Service staff and/or contracted service providers engaged to support implementation of Board of Inquiry recommendations. All data collected will be aggregated and de-identified. The department will not attempt to link any unit-level data collected from this survey with any other unit-level data (such as registrations of interest to receive information and updates on the Board of Inquiry implementation consultation process).
For more information on the department’s handling of personal information, please refer to the department’s privacy policy at Department of Education privacy policy | vic.gov.au. You may contact the department to request access to any personal information that the department holds about you. Please note that the survey responses will not include your name or directly identifying information and therefore the department will not be able to provide you with access to your individual survey answers after they have been submitted. "
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