We are pleased to share the National Centre’s 2024-25 Annual Report, now available on our website. This report reflects a significant year of consolidation and progress for the National Centre.
The work of the National Centre has taken on heightened urgency in recent months. The deeply distressing cases of child sexual abuse in childcare and community settings have been devastating for children, families and communities, and they serve as a reminder that the systems intended to keep children safe require continued strengthening. They also reinforce the importance of the National Centre’s role in helping to build safer environments, strengthening sector capability, and amplifying the voices and expertise of victims and survivors.
Against this backdrop, our work this year focused on deepening lived experience engagement, strengthening capability and expanding the evidence base that supports prevention and responses to child sexual abuse. Highlights include placing lived and living experience at the centre of our planning and structure, launching The Change Academy to build workforce and sector capability and adding to the evidence base through our commissioned research program.
Looking forward, the National Centre has adopted three new strategic priorities to guide our next phase of work. Our 2025-26 strategic impact goals are to:
- Embed lived and living experience at the heart of all we do, ensuring that people’s voices, wisdom and expertise guide every aspect of our work.
- Build sector capability to prevent harm and improve responses to child sexual abuse, strengthening the knowledge, skills and practices of organisations and professionals across Australia.
- Strengthen policy and systems reform, driving change that makes children and young people safer and ensures victims and survivors are better supported.
