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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 6: Impacts of abuse and neglect of disabled people in care

31. Part 5 of the Inquiry’s final report, Whanaketia – Through pain and trauma, from darkness to light, describes the impacts of abuse and neglect suffered by survivors of State and faith-based care during the Inquiry period.

32. While there are many impacts that are broadly common to all survivors and across all care settings, the segregation of disabled survivors away from their families, communities and broader society led to lifelong struggles to ‘find their place’. It denied Māori and Pacific survivors access to their cultural beliefs, values and practices. Disabled survivors were also regularly dehumanised and stripped of their autonomy, which not only caused immense mental and emotional harm but also restricted survivors’ life opportunities.

33. Chapter 5 of the Inquiry's Kimberley Centre case study, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, describes the impacts of abuse and neglect at the Kimberley Centre in Taitoko, Levin. 

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

  • Chapter 2 explains the impacts on interpersonal relationships, physical health, mental health and emotional wellbeing, and life pathways of disabled survivors (including entrapment in institutional care and evidence of unmarked graves)
  • Chapter 3 describes the impacts on disabled survivors of being placed in largescale institutions
  • Chapter 4 explains how the negative impacts of abuse and neglect in care have contributed to further adverse outcomes for many disabled survivors and the disability community as a whole.
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
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