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Vision: Children are free from exploitation
Mission: To drive a collaborative national response to counter the online exploitation of children
The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation was announced by the Prime Minister on 25 March 2018, as a measure of the 2018-19 Commonwealth Budget.
The Centre brings together a world-leading approach, incorporating key stakeholders and partners, and driving a collective effort to counter the epidemic of child exploitation. It provides an integrated and collaborative capability to ensure cohesion by using the expertise of federal, state and territory, non-government agencies and private industry, and by allowing a cross-pollination of resources, knowledge and skillsets between stakeholders.
Our activities
In partnership, the ACCCE will work to free children from exploitation through its four pillars, Prepare, Prevent, Protect and Pursue. The Centre will:
- prepare future capabilities and technologies to counter child exploitation
- prevent the exploitation of children, and intervene earlier in the abuse of victims
- protect victims from further victimisation, and protect the wellbeing of members
- support authorities to pursue and prosecute child sex offenders, and remove victims from harm.
The child exploitation threat
The Centre has been established in response to an exponential increase in reports of the online exploitation of children.
No region is untouched and no country is immune from this crime.
Our strategic framework
The ACCCE Blueprint is a culmination of 12 months of design work since the formal establishment of the ACCCE on 1 July 2018. It sets out why the ACCCE was established, and how it will operate, aligned to its mission of driving a collaborative national response to counter the exploitation of children.
Our governance
A Board of Management (BoM), provides the strategic direction for the ACCCE, and is responsible for ensuring the ACCCE is operating in line with its purpose and all relevant legal, financial, and ethical considerations. The BoM meets quarterly and is co-chaired by Deputy Commissioner Investigations Ian McCartney and Deputy Commissioner Specialist and Support Operations Karl Kent.
Deputy Commissioner Brett Pointing (Chair) | Deputy Commissioner Operations Australian Federal Police |
Deputy Commissioner Justine Saunders | Operations Support Australian Border Force |
Mr. Jeremy Johnson | Chief of Staff Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission |
Assistant Commissioner Lesa Gale | Assistant Commissioner Northern Command Australian Federal Police |
Ms. Julie Inman Grant | Commissioner Office of the eSafety Commissioner |
Ms. Rebekah Kilpatrick | Acting Head of National Office for Child Safety Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |
Deputy Commissioner Tracey Linford | Crime, Counter-Terrorism and Specialist Operations Queensland Police Service |
A/Deputy Commissioner Gary Budge | Operations Western Australia Police Force |
| First Assistant Secretary Hamish Hansford | Cyber, Digital and Technology Policy Division Department of Home Affairs |
Key stakeholders and partners
Drawing upon the expertise of federal, state and territory law enforcement, government and non-government agencies, private industry, academia, international partners and a cross-pollination of resources, knowledge and skillsets to counter online exploitation.
Government agencies
- Attorney General’s Department
- Department of Home Affairs
- Australian Federal Police
- Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
- Australian Institute of Criminology
- AUSTRAC
- Australian Border Force
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Department of Social Services
- Department of Human Services
- Office of the e-Safety Commissioner
- National Office of Child Safety
State and territory partners
Police
- ACT Policing
- Queensland Police Service
- South Australia Police
- New South Wales Police Force
- Northern Territory Police
- Tasmania Police
- Victoria Police
- Western Australia Police Force
Other partners
- Victims of Crime Commissioner, Australian Capital Territory
- Victims of Crime Commissioner, Victoria
- Victims of Crime, Queensland
- Victims of Crime, Northern Territory
- Victim Support Services, Tasmania
- Victims Services, New South Wales
- Commissioner for Victims of Crime, Western Australia
- Commissioner for Victim's Rights, South Australia
