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18 January 2015

Inquiries fail our children

AUSTRALIA has had more than 80 inquiries into child welfare institutions in the past 160 years but they have done little to protect children, a new report says.
Many children died in institutional care but before 2000 there were only three cases where an inquiry led to criminal charges, the report commissioned to assist the current child abuse royal commission revealed. None of the alleged perpetrators ever served time in prison.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2649494/inquiries-fail-our-children/?cs=3373