The Final Government Response to the independent Second Year Review of the National Redress Scheme for institutional child sexual abuse (the Scheme) has been conducted and changes to the Scheme include:

-offering reassessment of an application if a relevant institution subsequently joins the scheme;

-removing the restrictions on people applying from prison;

-making changes to the process related to Serious Criminal Convictions to reduce the number of people required to go through the full special assessment process;

- combining separate payments to simplify the assessment process and ensure all redress outcomes recognise the impact of the abuse survivors experienced;

- changing the internal review processes to allow additional information to be provided by applicants as part of a review of their redress outcome; and

- further expanding access to redress for former child migrants.

These changes, and further funding for the Scheme, will mean that there will likely be an increase in historical allegations of reportable conduct. If your organisation needs help with investigating a historical allegation of reportable conduct please reach out to me. Insight Investigations & Mediation specialises in historical reportable conduct investigations.