AUSTRALIA
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STATE governments and churches that ran children’s homes should not be allowed administer a redress scheme for child sexual abuse survivors, a royal commission has been told.
LEONIE Sheedy the chief executive of Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) said a national independent redress scheme needed to recognise all forms of abuse and neglect suffered by children in care.
“Past providers and governments that operated orphanages, children’s homes and other institutions should contribute to this national scheme but should have no say in how the redress in managed,” she said on Friday.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is hearing from governments and non-government organisations about a compensation scheme for tens of thousands of abuse survivors.
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