Call for Submissions: Guidance

The Implementation Monitor welcomes submissions as sources of evidence, information and opinion. These notes provide a number of suggestions on how you might prepare and present a written submission.

These are provided as a guide only and your submission is welcome in whatever format and style is manageable for you.

Who may make a submission?

This call for submissions focuses on any persons who have experienced child sexual abuse in government institutions, their families, friends and advocates; or other interested persons affected by child sexual abuse.

The Implementation Monitor does not wish to re-traumatise victims and survivors by re-telling of their stories. If you have made a submission through the COI Joint Scrutiny Committee or directly to the Monitor already, you do not need to re-submit these. Supplementary information and/or new perspectives are welcome.

There will be further opportunities in 2026 to make submissions to the Implementation Monitor following the release of his first annual report and Implementation Framework.

Relevance

Your submission must relate to the Implementation Monitor’s role to review, analyse and report on the implementation of the recommendations of in-scope inquiries. Calls for submission and due dates are listed on the Implementation Monitor’s website.

The Implementation Monitor does not have an investigatory role and cannot consider individual cases/disputes.

Purpose of Submissions

It is important that your submission addresses an aspect of the recommendation(s) of one or more of the in-scope inquiries. Your submission may contain factual information, opinion or both. You may wish to draw the Implementation Monitor’s attention to something relevant to the inquiry(s). You may choose to emphasise solutions to the matter that you raise. You may wish to highlight to an area of the reform that is going well. The Monitor welcomes your submission providing it is relevant, not frivolous or offensive in nature, and focuses on the child safety reform and government’s efforts to implement the reform effectively.

Submission Format

There is no specific method for organising or presenting a submission. Your contribution can take the form of a letter, a short summary paper or a longer research document. You can include relevant data in appendices or incorporate in the main the body of the text. It is important that the structure, argument and conclusions of your submission are clear.

Hard copy or electronic submissions

You can send your submission in hard copy, or electronically. If you send it in hard copy, a typed document on A4 paper is preferred. If this is not possible, a handwritten submission is acceptable; please ensure that your handwriting is legible.

You can provide your submission electronically by email. Microsoft Word or PDF are the preferred formats. If you have any questions about the suitability of your file format/size, please contact the Office of the Implementation Monitor.

Verification of your details

Please sign the submission. Sign on behalf of yourself, or on behalf of the person you are representing or advocating for.

What happens to your submission once provided?

In 2025, The Implementation Monitor is preparing his first Annual Report which must be submitted to Parliament by 30 September 2025. This will focus on an audit of the recommendations and an understanding of the current status of the recommendations as reported by government Agencies.

Your submission will be used by the Implementation Monitor to help inform future activity for the office, priorities and focus areas. It may be used to inform future annual reports from 2026 and beyond. Unless stated otherwise (as per below), the Implementation Monitor may decide to publish some of the information that it receives, including by uploading it to the website or by referencing or including it in his reports.

The Implementation Monitor will not make available to the public any names, addresses,  schools, places of employment or other information that identifies, or is likely to lead to the identification of, any child, victim and survivor or witness unless the appropriate consents have been obtained or the Implementation Monitor is otherwise legally required to do so.

Submissions should be relevant, should not contain offensive language or remarks, and should not be frivolous or vexatious.

Protecting the information you provide

The Implementation Monitor will respect the wishes of any person who wants to provide information confidentially. When making a submission please clearly state how you wish your submission to be treated:

• Public submission – may be used and referred to by the Implementation Monitor publicly and may be published in full by the Implementation Monitor on their website.
• Confidential submission- please indicate clearly at the top of the submission or in a covering note, requesting it be kept confidential. If only part of the submission is requested to be confidential, please detail that part on a separate page. While your submission may inform the Implementation Monitor’s work, he will not publish confidential information or quote from it publicly or in any reports.
• Anonymised submission – you can request that your information be provided anonymously or under a pseudonym. The Implementation Monitor will keep a record of your identity, but it will not name or identify you as being the sources of any information that it decides to make public (including in any published reports).

If you have concerns about confidentiality or have information you want to provide to the Implementation Monitor but are worried about providing it, please contact the Director, Office of the Implementation Monitor to discuss your options before you make a submission.

Sending your submission

Submissions can be sent to:

Email: submissions@oim.tas.gov.au
Address: GPO BOX 1126 HOBART 7001

Submissions close at 5pm on Friday 29 August 2025
Please contact the Director, Office of the Implementation Monitor contact@oim.tas.gov.au if you have any queries in relation to the submissions process.

Submission acknowledgement
Receipt of Submissions will be acknowledged, in writing, by the Office of the Implementation Monitor.