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Abuse in Care - Royal Commission of Inquiry

Abuse in Care - Royal Commission of Inquiry

This Royal Commission is an independent inquiry into abuse in state care and in the care of faith-based institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Chapter 5: Nature and extent of abuse and neglect of disabled people in care

27. Part 4 of the Inquiry’s final report, Whanaketia – Through pain and trauma, from darkness to light, describes the nature and extent of abuse and neglect suffered by survivors of State and faith-based care.

28. Disabled survivors were subjected to all the types of abuse and neglect identified by the Inquiry. Neglect was pervasive and experienced by almost every disabled survivor the Inquiry heard from, particularly in large-scale institutional settings.

29. Chapter 4 of the Inquiry's Kimberley Centre case study, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, describes the nature and extent of abuse and neglect at the Kimberley Centre in Taitoko, Levin.

30. Part 5 of the Inquiry’s final report, Whanaketia – Through pain and trauma, from darkness to light, includes more detailed information on the nature and extent of abuse and neglect of disabled people in care:

  • Chapter 2 explains that being placed into care caused trauma and disruption to forming attachments, and separated disabled survivors from their identify, whānau, community and society
  • Chapter 2 describes the psychological and emotional abuse and neglect (including institutionalisation and depersonalisation), physical abuse and neglect, sexual abuse, racial abuse and cultural neglect, medical abuse and neglect, solitary confinement, financial abuse and forced labour, and educational neglect suffered by disabled people in care
  • Chapter 3 explains how abuse and neglect of disabled people can be seen as transgressions of te ao Māori worldviews, disability principles and Pacific values
  • Chapter 4 describes abuse and neglect in disability care settings, including largescale psychopaedic and psychiatric institutions, group homes and community care, and special schools
  • Chapter 5 sets out the extent of abuse and neglect in disability care settings
Disabled survivors' experiences of abuse and neglect in care
  • He Karakia
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Executive summary
  • Chapter 3: Purpose and process
  • Chapter 4: Circumstances that led to disabled people entering care
  • Chapter 5: Nature and extent of abuse and neglect of disabled people in care
  • Chapter 6: Impacts of abuse and neglect of disabled people in care
  • Chapter 7: Factors that contributed to disabled people being abused and neglected in care
  • He waiata aroha mō ngā purapura ora
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