• • • • • • • • Women and their Children to prioritise implementation of key prevention measures and responses to violence against children of all ages, including sexual violence, in particular against girls ensure that a National Centre for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse establishes a comprehensive standard with regard to intervention in cases of child sexual abuse, including child-friendly, multi-agency measures and appropriate therapeutic services to avoid secondary or re-traumatisation of child victims review the National Redress Scheme to include non-citizens or nonpermanent residents, persons sentenced for a crime to five years or longer, and children under 8 in 2018, and disregard the Catholic church ‘deeds of release’ for the victims and survivors of abuse by religious personnel who wish to pursue an independent and secular redress process support child-specific therapeutic intervention and counselling to child victims of violence, in addition to the support provided to families substantially increase family violence prevention and responses related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, including through the Indigenous Family Safety Programme review the National Framework and the National Plan to adequately address the prevention of violence against children with disabilities, and prohibit by law the sterilisation of girls with disabilities without their prior, fully informed and free consent encourage community-based programs to address violence in all its forms against children in remote areas and in communities with a culturally and linguistically diverse background, and for LGBTI children strengthen its measures to raise awareness on the harmful effects of child marriage on the physical, mental health and well-being of girls enact legislation explicitly prohibiting coerced sterilisation or unnecessary medical or surgical treatment, guaranteeing bodily integrity and autonomy to intersex children as well as adequate support and counselling to families of intersex children. Family environment and alternative care: • provide the necessary human, technical and financial resources to family support services for children and their families, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, with the support needed to prevent violence, abuse and neglect • extend paid maternity leave to six months to support appropriate care of newborn children • invest in prevention measures for children and their families to avoid child removal and, when this is a necessary measure, to limit it to the shortest time possible, and ensure participation of children, their families and 45