"I expect to announce as early as tomorrow more institutions coming on board." Anglican Church, Salvos and others join National Redress Scheme

25 mei 2018 Victoria 

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Catholic church joins national redress for child abuse victims


Victims of institutional child sexual abuse
are one step closer to receiving compensation, after the Catholic Church keen to participate "to limit future trauma for survivors of abuse in obtaining redress from the Church" announced it would sign up to the national redress scheme.

All states and territories, except Western Australia, have signed up to the scheme, which would offer victims up to $150,000 in compensation as well as counselling.

Social Services Minister Dan Tehan, who is overseeing the scheme's rollout, said he had constructive talks with the WA Government and was confident it would opt into the scheme by its scheduled start date of July 1.