AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Angela Lavoipierre
The number of people enrolled in child safe training with the advocacy group Bravehearts has increased almost six-fold since the royal commission into child sexual abuse was announced in late 2012.
The programs teach adults how to spot and respond to child sexual abuse.
“We’re getting organisations across the board — sporting, church, commercial organisations — ringing us up,” said Bravehearts chief executive Hetty Johnston.
“[They’re] saying, ‘We need some help, we need to know all about this issue, we need to make sure that as we’re up the frontline with these children, that we’re going to be responding appropriately if ever this issues come home to roost in our organisation’.”
In 2011, Bravehearts trained 375 people in how to better identify and respond to child sexual abuse as well as other types of harm experienced by children, such as bullying.
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