New hearing dates published
The Inquiry has published a timetable of preliminary and public hearings up to February 2020. The hearings include hearings on the role of the internet in facilitating child sexual abuse and the first phase of public hearings about sexual abuse in residential schools. Continue reading
It seems that no matter where we turn these days we are faced with reports of abuse, rape, domestic violence, hate crime, exploitation, workplace harassment, human trafficking, and school children in uniform being vilified (street harassment). These reports appear to have attracted more media attention and prominence since the establishment of the #MeToo movement. Continue reading
Scottish Government: apology and financial redress scheme
The Scottish Government has accepted the recommendations of the review group whose report was noted in our blog of 7 September. Continue reading
On the 15 September 2018, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that the Australian Government would establish a Royal Commission into Australia’s aged care sector following a string of horrific revelations of elderly abuse and neglect that have shattered public faith in the care system.
Recent figures in Australia show that complaints about the sector have risen steeply and authorities have forcibly closed one aged-care service provider a month following a review triggered by a recent nursing home scandal in mid-2017. A further 17 aged care facilities in Australia currently have sanctions imposed. Continue reading
Yesterday, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered an emotive and unreserved national apology to the survivors, victims and families of institutional child sexual abuse.
Hundreds of people watched Mr Morrison deliver the national apology in the Parliament Chamber in Canberra.
On 11 October 2018, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) published its first findings.
The findings follow 20 days of evidence heard between November 2017 and January 2018 from 54 witnesses and also take account of a further 21 written submissions. That evidence and the findings are on two residential care establishments run by a religious order between 1917 and 1981.
The second preliminary took place on 25 September in preparation for the three weeks of public hearings due to start on 26 November 2018.
In the Inquiry’s words: This investigation focuses on the support services and legal remedies available to victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. It responds to multiple reports of inadequate support services, obstructive insurance companies and a civil justice system that may not deliver genuine reparation.
