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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
The ACCCE Board of Management, co-chaired by the Deputy Commissioners of the AFP and the Department of Home Affairs Transnational Serious and Organised Crime, is made up of executive members from key partner agencies. The board provides strategic direction, and is responsible for ensuring the ACCCE is operating in line with its purpose and all relevant legal, financial, and ethical considerations. The ACCCE Board of Management meets quarterly.
Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan (Co-chair) | Deputy Commissioner Operations Australian Federal Police |
Deputy Commissioner Karl Kent (Co-chair) | Deputy Commissioner Capability Australian Federal Police Commonwealth Transnational, Serious and Organised Crime Coordinator |
Deputy Commissioner Mandy Newton | Operations Support Australian Border Force |
Mr Jeremy Johnson | Chief of Staff Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission |
Assistant Commissioner Debbie Platz | National Manager Crime Operations Australian Federal Police |
Ms Julie Inman Grant | Commissioner Office of the eSafety Commissioner |
Ms Kathryn Mandla | Assistant Secretary National Office for Child Safety Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |
Deputy Commissioner Stephen Gollschewski | Crime, Counter-Terrorism and Specialist Operations Queensland Police Service |
A/Deputy Commissioner Gary Budge | Operations Western Australia Police Force |
