The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has released two research reports into the nature and extent of child sexual abuse in contemporary institutional settings. The research reports, Child sexual abuse in Australian institutional contexts 2008-2013: Findings from administrative data and the follow-up study Child sexual abuse in institutional contexts: The reliability of police data, nature and allegations reported to police, and factors driving reporting rates together explore the data available on contemporary cases of institutional child sexual abuse, as well as identifying areas where data was insufficient, unreliable or unavailable. The reports found significant differences between jurisdictions and agencies in terms of data fields, counting rules and recording practices used, making data aggregation highly problematic.
