The information below is about the National Redress Scheme.
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What is the Redress Scheme?
The National Redress Scheme is the Australian Governments response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The Redress Scheme:
The Scheme started on 1 July 2018 and will run for 10 years.
You can find out more on the Redress Scheme Website
What ADACAS does
ADACAS can help you with your application to the redress scheme.
This can be by:
If you would like to have ADACAS help you or a client with an application to the Redress Scheme, please call (02) 6242 5060 or email adacas@adacas.org.au. We can also visit you at a place of your choosing.
Adacas provides help and support to people with disabilities, the elderly and their carers.
Advocacy is about helping a person to be heard in the decisions that affect their life. Advocacy aims to increase a person’s control over goods, services and quality of life
Find out where we are or send an enquiry online so one of our staff can contact you directly.