National Redress Scheme Grant Connected Policy

About the Grant Connected Policy

The National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Grant Connected Policy (Redress GCP) restricts access to Australian Government grant funding for non-government institutions that fail to join the scheme.

The Redress GCP is a whole of government policy that all Australian Government entities must consider before awarding a grant. This ensures a consistent approach to encouraging non-government institutions named in applications to the scheme, to join the scheme. The GCP means that institutions named in applications to the scheme who have yet to join, may be ineligible for future Australian Government grant funding.

Many institutions have already joined the scheme. The National Redress Scheme GCP provides incentive for non-participating institutions named in applications to join.

Institutions subject to the Redress GCP

Institutions subject to the Redress GCP include

• non-government institutions named in applications to the scheme
• non-government institutions named in the Royal Commission

that have not joined the scheme or signified their intent to join within the required timeframes.

They will therefore be ineligible to access Australian Government grant funding. A list of these institutions is regularly updated and available on the National Redress Scheme website(Opens in a new tab/window).

Australian Government grant arrangements

The Department of Finance has updated grant agreement templates(Opens in a new tab/window) to reflect that non-government institutions that are listed on the scheme’s website as having not joined the scheme or signified their intent to join the scheme are ineligible to access Australian Government grant opportunities.

Questions in relation to the Redress GCP should be emailed to RedressPolicy@dss.gov.au.