NORTHERN IRELAND
Amnesty International
A comprehensive redress scheme for victims of historical child abuse must be part of the new Northern Ireland Programme for Government, child abuse survivors have told Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Junior Minister Megan Fearon today at a meeting at Stormont Castle.
Child abuse survivors and experts have developed a model compensation scheme which they want the incoming Northern Ireland Executive to adopt.
They set out a detailed framework for an out-of-court redress scheme for survivors of institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland as an alternative to costly civil court proceedings. The report recommends two categories of compensation for survivors – a common experience payment for all former residents of homes where abuse was endemic and compensation for cases of individual abuse.
Representatives of the Panel of Experts on Redress, an independent initiative of victim and survivor groups, individual survivors, academics, lawyers, and human rights experts, including Amnesty International, met with the Ministers today in advance of the end of the Historic Institutional Abuse Inquiry, chaired by Sir Anthony Hart, which is scheduled to report to the Executive in January 2017.
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