For the past six years, New Zealand has run a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, with the presentation of the Final Report, Whanaketia – Through pain and trauma, from darkness to light in the House of Representatives in July of this year.[1]
The report outlined 138 steps that the government can take to help survivors to heal, and to support them to live full, thriving lives.
Unfortunately, the Government hasn’t responded in full to the report yet. So far, all they have done is:
- committed to issuing an apology
- established a Crown Response Office in the Public Service Commission and
- provided a rapid payment of $20,000 for survivors of Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital Child and Adolescent Unit, who are terminally ill and have six months or less to live.[2,3]
Sign the petition calling on the Government to accept all the recommendations.