National Redress Scheme
Closes 30 June 2027
The National Redress Scheme was established following recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, for people who experienced institutional child sexual abuse.
If you are thinking of making an application for Redress, the Find & Connect web resource holds information about the institutions you were in, and how to apply for any records that may exist about your time in ‘care’.
For more information about Redress, and the free and confidential Redress Support Services, please visit the National Redress Scheme website or call the National Redress Information Line on 1800 737 377.
Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme
Closes 28 February 2026
The Territories Stolen Generations Redress Scheme is a financial and wellbeing package that makes payments in recognition of the harm caused by removal from family or community. The scheme provides support to Stolen Generations survivors who were removed from their families or communities in the Northern Territory, before 1 July 1978, the Australian Capital Territory, before 11 May 1989 or the Jervis Bay Territory.
For more information see: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/entity/territories-stolen-generations-redress-scheme-australian-government/ and https://territoriesredress.gov.au/
Victorian Stolen Generations Reparations Package
Closes 31 March 2027
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people who were first removed from Victoria aged under 18 by a government or non-government agency before 31 December 1976, for a period of time that resulted in the experience of loss of family, community, Culture, identity and language.
For more info: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/entity/stolen-generations-reparations-package-victorian-government/ and https://www.vic.gov.au/stolen-generations-reparations-package
Victorian Redress for Historical Institutional Abuse
Expected to close June 2026
Redress for Historical Institutional Abuse is for people who experienced physical, emotional or psychological abuse and neglect as children in institutional settings in Victoria before 1990.
To be eligible, applicants must have lived as a child in a Victorian institution for at least 6 months (in total) before 1 January 1990, and experienced physical, psychological, or emotional abuse or neglect in the Victorian institution.
For more info: https://services.dffh.vic.gov.au/redress
Payment scheme for former British child migrants
This scheme is open to any former British child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018 or the beneficiaries of any former child migrant who was alive on 1 March 2018 and has since passed away. Applicants must have been sent from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man under the age of 16 and prior to 1971 to be eligible.
For more information see: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/entity/payment-scheme-for-former-british-child-migrants-uk-government/ and https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/payment-scheme-for-former-british-child-migrants-guidelines/payment-scheme-for-former-british-child-migrants-guidelines
Victorian Forced Adoption Redress Scheme
Closes February 2028
This scheme provides financial redress and support to the many mothers who continue to live with the serious, complex and ongoing effects of their experience of forced separation.
The scheme is open to mothers who gave birth in Victoria, or were a Victorian resident but gave birth interstate, and who were forcibly separated from their newborn babies prior to 1990.
For more info: https://www.vic.gov.au/redress-forced-adoptions