NSW Child Sexual Abuse Laws

The NSW Government laws to protect children and improve outcomes for survivors is the Criminal Legislation Amendment (Child Sexual Abuse) Act 2018.  This Act includes offences of failure to reduce or remove the risk of child abuse, and failure to report child abuse, as well as sentencing procedures for historical child sexual abuse.

A fact sheet on these laws can be found here.

Other Important changes

• 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