NEW ZEALAND
Radio New Zealand
September 21, 2020
By Andrew McRae
An interim report from the Abuse in Care Royal Commission would accelerate help for victims, a lawyer representing abuse survivors says.
The commission, which resumes public hearings in Auckland today, is investigating abuse in state and faith-based care between 1950 and 1999.
In November 2019 the Royal Commission held contextual hearings which gave the background of concerns leading up to its establishment and what people hoped could be achieved.
Over the next two weeks it will hear evidence from survivors who have sought redress for abuse suffered in state care and from others who have dealt with government agencies on behalf of claimants.
The state redress public hearings were to have been held in April but were delayed because of the Covid-19 lockdown.
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