The chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee says sports are committed to supporting child abuse victims but many cannot meet the financial test required to sign up to the national redress scheme.
The chief executive of the Australian Olympic Committee, Matt Carroll, has warned that the national redress scheme for sexual abuse victims could put some sports at risk of becoming insolvent if they signed up.
"The issue is being able to meet the financial requirements of the scheme, and also even if we did that, to be able to ensure that the sports can actually meet those [requirements]," Carroll told the ABC. "That's what we're working with the scheme on, and with the minister [federal families and social services minister Anne Ruston]."
He said that the way the national redress scheme worked, there was a financial test required to sign up, and that Swimming Australia and others did not have enough money to pass the test.
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