AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Legal process will be easier but redress scheme for sex abuse victims in children’s homes a long way off
November 3, 2014
Rachel Browne
Social Affairs Reporter
The legal process for survivors of sexual abuse committed in state-run children’s homes and orphanages will be simplified under recommendations from the NSW government aimed at reducing the suffering for victims.
Victims advocates welcomed the move but continued calls for a national redress scheme that includes financial compensation.
Care Leavers Australia Network executive officer Leonie Sheedy commended some aspects of the state government’s interim response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse but said much more work was needed.
“We need to have a national independent redress scheme for people who have been abused and used in orphanages in NSW and foster homes,” Ms Sheedy said.
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