national redress scheme

The National Redress Scheme (NRS) was established in 2018 by the Australian Government as a result of a recommendation by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It aims to offer redress to survivors via three elements:a monetary payment to survivors as a tangible means of recognising the wrong survivors have suffered; and a counselling and psychological component which, depending on where the survivor lives, consists of access to counselling and psychological se