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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus

MYSTERIOUS: Labor pledges extra 15m to child abuse redress scheme as backlog grows | Mind Blowing Facts

Australian social services minister Amanda Rishworth
Social services minister Amanda Rishworth says $15m of new funding will help reduce delays in the child abuse redress scheme. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The federal government will inject $15m into the child abuse redress scheme to help it cope with a growing backlog of claims, which has more than doubled in two years.

Guardian Australia revealed on Friday that the scheme was struggling to deal with a huge influx of claims from survivors of institutional child sexual abuse this year.

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