AUSTRALIA
Whyalla News
By KAYLEIGH BRUCE April 22, 2014
Local service providers were recently provided with information to aid people who may wish to tell their story to the Royal Commission into the Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse.
Currently the Royal Commission is hearing from people across Australia to look at how institutions have managed and responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse.
Any child sexual abuse survivors can share their story as part of the commission to show what happened in the past to help build child safe organisations in the future.
Victim Support Service facilitated the information session in conjunction with Know More – an independent legal service offering free legal assistance to people considering making a submission.
Victim Support Service Royal Commission Support Services counsellor Dianne Newton said the aim of the local session was to educate service providers to let community members know that the royal commission was interested in their story.
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