AUSTRALIA
ABC Gippsland
By Celine Foenander
A group which represents children who grew up in orphanages, children’s homes and foster care is calling on its members to be brave enough to tell their story to a Royal Commission.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse got underway in Melbourne this morning.
The Care Leavers Australia Network or CLAN says it will support its members through the process, many of whom are in Gippsland.
“The public needs to know what happened to us, we’re the invisible children and when we did try to speak out, we weren’t believed,” CLAN executive officer and co-founder Leonie Sheedy told ABC Gippsland.
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