Implementation Project:

The Office of the Tasmanian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) is currently in the implementation phase of its development.  On 1 December 2023, the Tasmanian NPM released its implementation project report, Preventing torture and ill-treatment in Tasmania.

Download the report:

Implementation Project and Annual Report - November 2023 (PDF, 6.2 MB)

Supplementary to this report, the Tasmanian NPM is currently completing implementation planning in relation to health and social care settings.  In particular, aged residential care and disability support environments, in order to give effect to recommendations 11.6 – 11.11 of the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.

Further information about this supplementary body of work will be released in Q3 2024.

Enquiries regarding the Tasmanian NPM can be made by contacting us or by email at enquiries@npm.tas.gov.au

  • About the Tasmanian NPM

    What is a national preventive mechanism and what is OPCAT?

    About the Tasmanian NPM
  • Stakeholder consultation

    Stakeholder collaboration will provide best practice insights and inform key decisions made throughout this scoping process.

    Stakeholder consultation
  • Our Expectations

    Read about how the Tasmanian NPM expects people deprived of their liberty to be treated, so that torture and ill-treatment does not occur.

    Our Expectations