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Case Study 27: Health care providers and regulators, New South Wales and Victoria
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- Preface and Executive Summary
- Our inquiry
- Understanding child sexual abuse in institutional contexts
- Child safe institutions
- Support and treatment
- Particular institutions
- Beyond the Royal Commission
- Redress and civil litigation
- Criminal justice
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- First Sitting: April 2013, Sydney
- Case Study 1: Scouts and Hunter Aboriginal Children’s Service
- Case Study 2: YMCA NSW
- Case Study 3: North Coast Children’s Home
- Case Study 4: The Towards Healing process
- Case Study 5: The Salvation Army boys’ homes, Australia Eastern Territory
- Case Study 6: Toowoomba Catholic school and Catholic Education Office
- Case Study 7: Parramatta Training School for Girls
- Case Study 8: Mr John Ellis, Towards Healing and civil litigation
- Case Study 9: St Ann’s Special School
- Case Study 10: The Salvation Army claims handling, Australia Eastern Territory
- Case Study 11: Christian Brothers
- Case Study 12: Perth independent school
- Case Study 13: Marist Brothers
- Case Study 14: Catholic Diocese of Wollongong
- Case Study 15: Swimming Australia and the DPP
- Case Study 16: Melbourne Response
- Case Study 17: Retta Dixon Home
- Case Study 18: Australian Christian Churches
- Case Study 19: Bethcar Children’s Home
- Case Study 20: The Hutchins School
- Case Study 21: Satyananda Yoga Ashram
- Case Study 22: Yeshiva Bondi and Yeshivah Melbourne
- Case Study 23: Knox Grammar School
- Case Study 24: Out-of-home care
- Case Study 25: Redress and civil litigation
- Case Study 26: St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol
- Case Study 27: Health care providers and regulators, New South Wales and Victoria
- Case Study 28: Catholic Church authorities in Ballarat
- Directions hearing: July 2015, Sydney
- Case Study 29: Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Case Study 30: Youth detention centres, Victoria
- Case Study 31: Retired Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson
- Case Study 32: Geelong Grammar School
- Case Study 33: The Salvation Army children’s homes, Australia Southern Territory
- Case Study 34: Brisbane Grammar School and St Paul’s School
- Case Study 35: Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
- Case Study 36: Church of England Boys’ Society
- Case Study 37: Centres for performing arts
- Case Study 38: Criminal justice issues
- Case Study 39: Sporting clubs and institutions
- Case Study 40: Australian Defence Force
- Case Study 41: Disability service providers
- Case Study 42: Anglican Diocese of Newcastle
- Case Study 43: Catholic Church authorities in Maitland-Newcastle
- Case Study 44: Catholic Church authorities in Armidale and Parramatta
- Case Study 45: Harmful sexual behaviours of children in schools
- Case Study 46: On the criminal justice consultation paper
- Case Study 47: Institutional review of YMCA NSW
- Case Study 48: Institutional review of Scouts and Hunter Aboriginal Children’s Service
- Case Study 49: Institutional review of The Salvation Army
- Case Study 50: Institutional review of Catholic Church authorities
- Case Study 51: Institutional review of Commonwealth, state and territory governments
- Case Study 52: Institutional review of Anglican Church authorities
- Case Study 53: Institutional review of Yeshiva/h
- Case Study 54: Institutional review of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Case Study 55: Institutional review of Australian Christian Churches
- Case Study 56: Institutional review of Uniting Church in Australia
- Case Study 57: Nature, cause and impact of child sexual abuse
- Final sitting: December 2017, Sydney
- Previously redacted reports
The Royal Commission held a public hearing in Sydney from Wednesday 6 to Friday 15 May 2015.
The public hearing inquired into the policies and procedures of the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, the then NSW Medical Board, the Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, New South Wales Ministry of Health and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Victoria to allegations of child sexual abuse in private medical practices and public hospitals.
The scope and purpose of the public hearing was to inquire into:
- The experience of a number of patients of health care services in New South Wales who were sexually abused as children in:
- private medical practices; and
- public hospitals.
- The experience of a number of complainants who made complaints against a medical practitioner to the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) and the then New South Wales Medical Board.
- The systems, policies, practices and procedures for receiving, investigating and responding to complaints against medical practitioners of child sexual abuse of:
- the HCCC;
- the Medical Council of New South Wales; and
- the Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney.
- The experience of an outpatient who alleges child sexual abuse by a psychologist at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney in the late 1960’s.
- The systems, policies and procedures of the Northern Sydney Local Health District and New South Wales Ministry of Health for preventing, detecting and responding to child sexual abuse.
- The experience of an inpatient who alleged child sexual abuse by a volunteer at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne in the early 1980’s.
- The response of The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria to an allegation of child sexual abuse made against a hospital volunteer.
- The systems, policies and procedures of The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria for preventing, detecting and responding to child sexual abuse.
- Any related matters.
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