Assisting Survivors with Serious Criminal Convictions

This training provides Redress Support Workers with knowledge and skills to assist and support survivors with serious criminal convictions applying to the National Redress Scheme. It will explain the special assessment process that survivors with serious criminal convictions may need to undertake before being entitled to redress and how to best support survivors navigating this process.

Hosted by Knowmore’s Prisons Coordination and Capability Development RSS Teams, the session will assist Redress Support Workers to:
• Understand what serious criminal convictions under the National Redress Scheme are and recognise when a survivor may need to undertake the special assessment process.
• Understand the purpose and steps of the special assessment process and what a determination under this process means for survivors.
• Support survivors with how to best complete the Serious Criminal Convictions Additional Information Form and what additional documents and information may assist with the special assessment process.
• Support survivors through the special assessment process and understand how to gather additional documents and information, particularly for survivors in custody.

By the end of the training, Redress Support Workers will have a better understanding of when survivors with serious criminal convictions will or may need to undertake the special assessment process, be better equipped to support survivors through this process and how to gather relevant information and documents in support of their application under the National Redress Scheme.