Govt to be handed abuse redress plan

Sky News
August 31, 2015

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2015/08/31/govt-to-be-handed-abuse-redress-plan.html

Recommendations on how to compensate thousands of people who were abused in orphanages and children's homes across Australia will be sent to the federal government on Monday.

The recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse are a key outcome for the national inquiry, which will run until the end of 2017.

The recommendations will be made public once they are considered by the Attorney-General's office but there is no indication how long that will take.

On Sunday CLAN, a key support and advocacy network for care-leavers, called on the government to publish the recommendations without delay.

In a consultation paper last January the commission proposed a scheme run by the commonwealth and funded by the institutions in which children were mistreated.

That actuarial model was for 65,000 abuse survivors and would cost $4.37 billion.

The federal government said it did not have the power to run a scheme and would not underwrite it.

The commission expressed disappointment with the government's response and commission chair Justice Peter McClellan has since said it is the scheme favoured by almost all of the institutions and survivor groups.