AUSTRALIA
SBS
AAP
A key network for people brought up in orphanages and other institutions has called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to establish as a “matter of urgency” a national redress scheme for abuse survivors.
The new prime minister is a parliamentary patron of Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN), which wants the federal government to back the $4.37 billion scheme recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The recommendations were published on September 14.
CLAN executive officer Leonie Sheedy says Mr Turnbull now has the opportunity to deliver fair and equitable compensation for the many thousands of people who were abused in Australia’s orphanages, children’s homes, foster care and mental institutions.
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