Documents From The National Office For Child Safety To The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference/catholic Religious Australia Regarding Annual Reports Submitted For The Catholic Church.

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The National Office for Child Safety requested information from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia for their 2019 annual report on implementing Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommendations. The report, limited to prevention of and response to abuse of current and future children, was organised around specific themes requiring practical examples from Catholic Church authorities. Documents include correspondence between the Implementation Advisory Group and the National Office, with meetings in July 2019 discussing report scope and feedback on the 2018 submission. Key discussion points included adopting a survivors' lens, demonstrating meaningful organisational change within the previous 12 months, and implementing National Principles and related initiatives. The National Office sought to finalise the reporting approach, though Government agreement remained pending as of August 2019. Sections redacted under section 47F(1) (deliberative processes) and section 22 (irrelevant to scope) limited disclosure of internal deliberations.