The impact of Australia's Royal Commission on child- and youth-serving organizations

Abstract

This commentary considers the impact to date of Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on child- and youth-serving organizations, particularly its influence on organizations’ efforts to create and maintain ‘child safe, child friendly’ cultures, policies and practices. Opportunities and challenges for organizational leaders are outlined. The commentary calls for more involvement by researchers in empirical research that is relevant to the causes and prevention of abuse in organizations, and for findings to be disseminated in ways that are useful to organizations.