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non-government schools will be required to take appropriate steps towards implementing these standards. Over the coming year we will continue to make important changes in the area of child safety and progress legislative reform to ensure that Canberra continues to develop as a child safe and child-friendly city.
Legislation will be amended to enhance the operation and administration of the working with vulnerable people scheme, as we continue to work with other jurisdictions to develop and implement national standards for working with children checks. We will introduce further staged civil and criminal legislative reforms as part of our continued commitment to implementing the royal commission’s recommendations.
We are working with other states and territories to improve information sharing between jurisdictions so that we can make more informed decisions and better protect children. We will also continue working closely with other jurisdictions to focus on national priority recommendations and ensure the harmonisation of our approaches to implementing recommendations.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse uncovered the failure by Australian governments to protect tens of thousands of children, across generations, across the country. As Prime Minister Scott Morrison and opposition leader Bill Shorten noted during their speeches in the national apology to survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, our nation let these children down. We can do better, and we will do better.
The progress report I have tabled today is part of the ACT government’s ongoing commitment to ensuring that history does not repeat, to ensuring that victims are never again silenced, to ensuring that perpetrators of child sexual abuse are brought to justice, and to ensuring that our community is a safe place for children and young people to live, learn and play.
I present the following papers:
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse—ACT Government Progress Report responding to recommendations—
Ministerial statement, 21 February 2019.
First Annual Progress Report, dated December 2018.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the ministerial statement.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Royal Commission Criminal Justice Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
Mr Ramsay, pursuant to notice, presented the bill, its explanatory statement and a Human Rights Act compatibility statement.
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