{"id":5023,"date":"2015-05-06T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2015-05-06T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:09:24","slug":"royal-commission-into-institutional-responses-to-child-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/royal-commission-into-institutional-responses-to-child-sexual-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/05\/Royal-Commision-internet-tile-400x280.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/05\/Royal-Commision-internet-tile-400x280.jpg\" alt=\"Royal-Commision internet tile 400x280\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/05\/Royal-Commision-internet-tile-400x280.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/05\/Royal-Commision-internet-tile-400x280-200x140.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been conducting case studies around Australia since its establishment in 2013. Last month the Commission announced it would conduct a public hearing in Sydney from May 6, examining a number of hospital and health institutions in NSW as well as The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Melbourne (RCH).<\/p>\n<p>The RCH will appear at the hearing\u00a0in relation to the investigation of the experience of a person who, having been an inpatient here in the early 1980s, subsequently reported having been sexually assaulted by a hospital volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>Former CEO John De Campo, and CEO Professor Christine Kilpatrick, will appear at the Royal Commission hearing next week on behalf of the RCH.<\/p>\n<p>The RCH is\u00a0cooperating fully with the Royal Commission; we support its important work in creating safe institutions for all children, and we\u2019ll be open and transparent with you about the Royal Commission hearings ahead.<\/p>\n<p>If you, your child or a member of your family has questions about these matters, please let us know so that we can work together to address your concerns. In the first instance, you can write to us at <a href=\"mailto:consumer.liaison@rch.org.au\">consumer.liaison@rch.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know has experienced child sexual abuse in any institutional context, we encourage you contact the Victorian Police Sano Task Force on\u00a01800 110 007 or via email: <a href=\"mailto:sanotaskforce@police.vic.gov.au\">sanotaskforce@police.vic.gov.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to report a child in immediate risk or danger of sexual abuse please call\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.police.vic.gov.au\/content.asp?Document_ID=59\">Triple Zero (000)<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.police.vic.gov.au\/content.asp?Document_ID=7\">contact your local police station.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCH will appear at a public hearing conducted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5027,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023\/revisions\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}