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Committee’s report

The committee tabled its Report No. 47, 57th Parliament - Child Safe Organisations Bill 2024 on 2 August 2024. The Bill was passed without amendment by the Queensland Parliament on 11 September 2024.

View: Report
View: Letter of Clarification, Anglicare Southern Queensland
View: Parliamentary debate on the Bill
          11 September 2024 - Transcript pages 2982-3015
          The debate can be viewed by clicking on the movie icon within the transcripts.

About the Bill

On 12 June 2024, Hon Charis Mullen MP, Minister for Child Safety, Minister for Seniors and Disability Services and Minister for Multicultural Affairs introduced the Bill into the Queensland Parliament.  The Bill was referred to the Community Support and Services Committee for detailed consideration.   

View: Explanatory speech
View: Bill 
View: Explanatory Notes
View: Statement of compatibility

The policy objective of the Child Safe Organisations Bill 2024 (the Bill) is to improve the safety and wellbeing of children in Queensland organisations and ensure children who are at risk of experiencing abuse or who have experienced abuse in institutional settings are supported early, in a trauma-informed, appropriate way.

The Bill proposes to implement recommendations from the 2017 final report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse including establishing mandatory compliance with the 10 Child Safe Standards, based on the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations, and a Universal Principle for cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children as a best practice approach to keep children safe. 

The Bill would also establish a nationally consistent reportable conduct scheme to provide independent oversight of organisational responses to allegations of child abuse across sectors and provide for the Queensland Family and Child Commission to be the independent oversight body responsible for administering a legislated child safe organisations system.

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