The Families and Social Services Minister has threatened sanctions against six organisations that have left 55 survivors of childhood sexual abuse without a clear path to justice.
Families and Social Services Minister Anne Ruston has threatened sanctions against five organisations that have left dozens of survivors of childhood sexual abuse without a clear path to justice by failing to join the national redress scheme.
"The federal government has made the decision that these ... organisations, and any other organisations against which applications are made that refuse to join the scheme in the future, will no longer be eligible to bid for any government funding. She said the "overwhelming" majority of charities and organisations that had either been named in the Royal Commission or had applications against them in National Redress Scheme had committed to join the scheme or had joined the scheme.
She thanked these groups "for the leadership that they've shown to the people that they work with but also the commitment that they have shown to child safety." The letter, published on Kenja Communication's website, said her co-founder Kenneth Dyers had been "exonerated by the court system" in proceedings that stretched from 1993 to 2002 and that "there were no convictions" in relation to the allegations made against him.
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