AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
Janet Fife-Yeomans
The Daily Telegraph
April 26, 2013
CHILDREN will remain at risk unless the royal commission into institutionalised child sex abuse includes the Family Court in its investigations, Bravehearts founder Hetty Johnston has warned.
Ms Johnston said it would be a missed opportunity if the court was not included.
“Thousands of children and their families are depending on it,” she said yesterday.
In a submission sent by Bravehearts to the royal commission, the organisation said improvements to practices, policies and procedures within the court would have a positive impact on a “large number of Australian abuse survivors”.
Ms Johnston said it was a “no-brainer” that the court came under the commission’s terms of reference.
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