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Implementation Monitor Annual Report 2025-26

The Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor’s Annual Report for 2025–26 was published on 27 October 2026.

The report details progress in implementing child safety reforms across Tasmania, the work undertaken by the Office of the Implementation Monitor (OIM) during the reporting period, and the ongoing work needed to ensure reforms are fully implemented, embedded in everyday practice and lead to lasting improvements in the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.

Message from the Implementation Monitor

Robert Benjamin AM KC, Tasmania’s Child Safety Reform Implementation Monitor, shares an overview of the Annual Report, key findings and the work ahead.

Read the Annual Report

The Implementation Monitor's Annual Report is presented in two parts:

Part 1 – Annual Report 2025–26

The main report covers the work of the Office of the Implementation Monitor during 2025–26, progress on implementing recommendations from monitored inquiries and reviews, key findings, and priorities for the work ahead.

Part 2 – Companion Document: Appendices

The Companion Document contains more detailed supporting information and appendices that accompany the main report.

Both documents are available to read or download below.

Implementation Monitor Annual Report 2025-26

Implementation Monitor Annual Report 2025-26 - Companion Document: Appendices

Easy Read Guide

The OIM has developed an Easy Read Guide and a short animation to make information about the Annual Report and its findings easier to understand.

Easy Read Guide - Implementation Monitor Annual Report 2025-26

Key Findings

During 2025–26, the Office of the Implementation Monitor (OIM) appraised 276 recommendations from five inquiries and reviews.

The report identifies substantial progress in implementing child safety reforms, with many recommendations completed or substantially progressed. However, significant work remains to ensure reforms are embedded in everyday practice and lead to meaningful, lasting change for children and young people.

The report also highlights the importance of listening to children, young people, victim-survivors, Aboriginal people, and other stakeholders to understand how reforms are working in practice and where further attention is needed.

For more information about the OIM’s work, see About the Implementation Monitor.

Implementation Monitor Annual Report 2024-25

The Annual Report 2024-25 was published on Monday 27 October 2025 and was tabled in Parliament in early November 2025. You can read the full Report and companion document by scrolling down to the links below.

We have also developed an Easy Read Guide (PDF, 2.1 MB), to help read the report.

Or, you can watch the Animated Easy Read Guide in video format:

Message from the Implementation Monitor

Numerous scientific studies over the last 25 years, including the 2023 Australian Child Maltreatment Study, show that between one quarter and one third of all Australian children have been sexually abused as children. Sexual abuse of children is endemic, and it is not rare.

The recommendations I monitor are designed to:

• prevent Tasmanian children from being sexually abused,
• ensure the child is believed, protected and supported when abuse happens. This includes treating the awful impacts caused by the trauma of that abuse, and
• ensure effective and timely steps are taken to prevent or at least reduce ongoing risks to children.

I am independent and I monitor, review, evaluate and publicly report to Parliament (not Government) on the hundreds of monitored recommendations, which in turn obliges administrative and government actions to do what the Government and the Parliament have promised to do.

- Robert Benjamin

This is the Implementation Monitor Annual Report 2024 – 25 (PDF, 1.3 MB).

It is the Monitor’s first Annual Report. It serves as an audit of the reported status of child safety inquiry recommendations in Tasmania, setting a baseline of where the reform agenda is at for the first time.

It will help inform independent evaluations and reporting on progress in years to come.

The Implementation Monitor is responsible for overseeing the implementation of relevant recommendations relating to:

• The Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings (COI)
• the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
• the Independent Inquiry into the Tasmanian Department of Education’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
• the Department of Health’s Child Safe Governance Review of the Launceston General Hospital and Human Resources
• the Weiss Independent Review into Paul Reynolds

Information relating to each specific recommendation can be found in the Annual Report 2024 – 25 Companion Document: Appendices (PDF 3.4 MB).

Implementation Monitor Annual Report 2024 -25

Implementation Monitor Annual Report 2024-25 Companion document: Appendices