About this research:
This report looks at the past and contemporary vulnerability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to child sexual abuse in institutional settings. Commissioned by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuses, it explored the historical and ongoing systemic factors that have increased risk and shaped children’s experiences in these contexts.
- Year: 2017
- Authors: Patricia Anderson, Muriel Bamblett, Dawn Bessarab, Leah Bromfield, Sharni Chan, Gabriel Maddock, Karen Menzies, Margaret O'Connell, Glenn Pearson, Roz Walker and Michael R Wright
- Organisations: Telethon Kids Institute and the Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sexual Abuses
- VACCA involvement: Includes contributions through advisory input and authorship