AUSTRALIA
SBS
25 MAR 2015
Survivors of child sexual abuse will hear on Wednesday how institutions – government and non-government – might compensate them.
At a public hearing in Sydney spokespeople from all jurisdictions as well as representatives from churches, charities and schools where children were abused will be asked to comment on possible redress schemes.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has published 44 submissions received after the publication in January of a consultation paper outlining scenarios for a national approach to redress for abuse victims.
The paper modelled a $4.3 billion scheme, which would be funded by both government and non-government agencies responsible for institutions in which children were sexually maltreated.
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