NSW Child Sexual Abuse Laws

In June 2018, the NSW Government reformed laws to better protect children and improve outcomes for survivors with the passage of the Criminal Legislation Amendment (Child Sexual Abuse) Act 2018.  On the 31st of August 2018, this Act introduced new offences of failure to reduce or remove the risk of child abuse, and failure to report child abuse, as well as amendments to sentencing procedures for historical child sexual abuse.

A fact sheet on these new laws can be found here.

Other Important changes

• New NSW Civil Litigation Laws (pdf – 189 KB)
  • Civil liability Amendment (Institutional Child Abuse) Bill 2018 (pdf – 293 KB)
  • Explanatory note Civil liability Amendment (Institutional Child Abuse) Bill 2018 (pdf – 216 KB)

For more information

Visit the website at www.justice.nsw.gov.au