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Survivors travelled to Parliament to see the report revealed, five-and-a-half years after its terms of reference were announced, and decades after survivors first advocated for redress.
Aotearoa New Zealand’s biggest and costliest inquiry to date, with nearly $170 million in funding so far, its recommendations were delivered to Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden at the end of May.
Established in 2018 to investigate abuse and neglect of children, young people, and adults in state and faith-based care from 1950 to 1999, it has also heard from people who were abused since then. At least 250,000 are estimated to have been affected.