AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Annette Blackwell
October 27, 2014
Institutions and the government need to chip in to provide money to compensate thousands abused as children in orphanages, schools and child care organisations, the chairman of a national inquiry says.
Peter McClellan, who chairs the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, said on Monday that some institutions where children were abused had no money or no longer existed.
Justice McClellan says the community has to look to government and institutions to come together so all abuse survivors would have access to effective redress.
Speaking at the launch of Blue Knot day to raise awareness of abuse survivors, he said the commission would publish a paper in January 2015 with proposals on compensation.
It will publish final proposals in mid-2015.
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