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The Advertiser
09-05-2025
- Politics
- The Advertiser
NZ to increase payments to state care abuse victims
The New Zealand government will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in its 2025 budget for redress and compensation for hundreds of thousands of children, young people and vulnerable adults who were abused in state care. The total will be NZ$US774 million ($A714 million). A public inquiry in 2024 found some 200,000 children and vulnerable adults in state and faith-based care experienced some form of abuse from 1950 to 2019, forcing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in November to offer an historic national apology to victims and their families. "We know there is nothing we can do to take away the pain of survivors," Erica Stanford, the lead co-ordination minister for the government's response to the inquiry, said in a statement. "But the government has committed a significant investment ... to improve the redress system and strengthen the care system to prevent, identify, and respond to abuse in the future." The average compensation payment for new claims will be raised to NZ$US30,000 ($A47,000) from NZ$US19,180 ($A30,000), and more money will be provided for survivors who suffered extreme abuse, while processing of claims will be sped up from 2027 to cut wait times, the statement said. The redress does not include claims that sit with school boards, faith-based organisations, or other non-state providers, it said, adding the government will be receiving further advice on those later in the year. Those from the Indigenous Maori community in state and foster care institutions were especially vulnerable to abuse, findings in the 2024 public inquiry noted. The inquiry commissioned in 2018 was expanded to include churches and other faith-based institutions, following calls from victims and others. The New Zealand government will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in its 2025 budget for redress and compensation for hundreds of thousands of children, young people and vulnerable adults who were abused in state care. The total will be NZ$US774 million ($A714 million). A public inquiry in 2024 found some 200,000 children and vulnerable adults in state and faith-based care experienced some form of abuse from 1950 to 2019, forcing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in November to offer an historic national apology to victims and their families. "We know there is nothing we can do to take away the pain of survivors," Erica Stanford, the lead co-ordination minister for the government's response to the inquiry, said in a statement. "But the government has committed a significant investment ... to improve the redress system and strengthen the care system to prevent, identify, and respond to abuse in the future." The average compensation payment for new claims will be raised to NZ$US30,000 ($A47,000) from NZ$US19,180 ($A30,000), and more money will be provided for survivors who suffered extreme abuse, while processing of claims will be sped up from 2027 to cut wait times, the statement said. The redress does not include claims that sit with school boards, faith-based organisations, or other non-state providers, it said, adding the government will be receiving further advice on those later in the year. Those from the Indigenous Maori community in state and foster care institutions were especially vulnerable to abuse, findings in the 2024 public inquiry noted. The inquiry commissioned in 2018 was expanded to include churches and other faith-based institutions, following calls from victims and others. The New Zealand government will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in its 2025 budget for redress and compensation for hundreds of thousands of children, young people and vulnerable adults who were abused in state care. The total will be NZ$US774 million ($A714 million). A public inquiry in 2024 found some 200,000 children and vulnerable adults in state and faith-based care experienced some form of abuse from 1950 to 2019, forcing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in November to offer an historic national apology to victims and their families. "We know there is nothing we can do to take away the pain of survivors," Erica Stanford, the lead co-ordination minister for the government's response to the inquiry, said in a statement. "But the government has committed a significant investment ... to improve the redress system and strengthen the care system to prevent, identify, and respond to abuse in the future." The average compensation payment for new claims will be raised to NZ$US30,000 ($A47,000) from NZ$US19,180 ($A30,000), and more money will be provided for survivors who suffered extreme abuse, while processing of claims will be sped up from 2027 to cut wait times, the statement said. The redress does not include claims that sit with school boards, faith-based organisations, or other non-state providers, it said, adding the government will be receiving further advice on those later in the year. Those from the Indigenous Maori community in state and foster care institutions were especially vulnerable to abuse, findings in the 2024 public inquiry noted. The inquiry commissioned in 2018 was expanded to include churches and other faith-based institutions, following calls from victims and others. The New Zealand government will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in its 2025 budget for redress and compensation for hundreds of thousands of children, young people and vulnerable adults who were abused in state care. The total will be NZ$US774 million ($A714 million). A public inquiry in 2024 found some 200,000 children and vulnerable adults in state and faith-based care experienced some form of abuse from 1950 to 2019, forcing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in November to offer an historic national apology to victims and their families. "We know there is nothing we can do to take away the pain of survivors," Erica Stanford, the lead co-ordination minister for the government's response to the inquiry, said in a statement. "But the government has committed a significant investment ... to improve the redress system and strengthen the care system to prevent, identify, and respond to abuse in the future." The average compensation payment for new claims will be raised to NZ$US30,000 ($A47,000) from NZ$US19,180 ($A30,000), and more money will be provided for survivors who suffered extreme abuse, while processing of claims will be sped up from 2027 to cut wait times, the statement said. The redress does not include claims that sit with school boards, faith-based organisations, or other non-state providers, it said, adding the government will be receiving further advice on those later in the year. Those from the Indigenous Maori community in state and foster care institutions were especially vulnerable to abuse, findings in the 2024 public inquiry noted. The inquiry commissioned in 2018 was expanded to include churches and other faith-based institutions, following calls from victims and others.
Canberra Times
09-05-2025
- Business
- Canberra Times
NZ to increase payments to state care abuse victims
The average compensation payment for new claims will be raised to NZ$US30,000 ($A47,000) from NZ$US19,180 ($A30,000), and more money will be provided for survivors who suffered extreme abuse, while processing of claims will be sped up from 2027 to cut wait times, the statement said.
Perth Now
09-05-2025
- Politics
- Perth Now
NZ to increase payments to state care abuse victims
The New Zealand government will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in its 2025 budget for redress and compensation for hundreds of thousands of children, young people and vulnerable adults who were abused in state care. The total will be NZ$US774 million ($A714 million). A public inquiry in 2024 found some 200,000 children and vulnerable adults in state and faith-based care experienced some form of abuse from 1950 to 2019, forcing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in November to offer an historic national apology to victims and their families. "We know there is nothing we can do to take away the pain of survivors," Erica Stanford, the lead co-ordination minister for the government's response to the inquiry, said in a statement. "But the government has committed a significant investment ... to improve the redress system and strengthen the care system to prevent, identify, and respond to abuse in the future." The average compensation payment for new claims will be raised to NZ$US30,000 ($A47,000) from NZ$US19,180 ($A30,000), and more money will be provided for survivors who suffered extreme abuse, while processing of claims will be sped up from 2027 to cut wait times, the statement said. The redress does not include claims that sit with school boards, faith-based organisations, or other non-state providers, it said, adding the government will be receiving further advice on those later in the year. Those from the Indigenous Maori community in state and foster care institutions were especially vulnerable to abuse, findings in the 2024 public inquiry noted. The inquiry commissioned in 2018 was expanded to include churches and other faith-based institutions, following calls from victims and others.
BBC News
06-05-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Fire causes extensive damage to row of garages in Gorleston
Fire causes extensive damage to row of garages 6 minutes ago Share Save Andrew Turner BBC News, Norfolk Share Save Oliv3r Drone Photography A photograph shows the damage caused by the fire on Sunday, which was close to the A47 Gorleston Inner Relief Road Drone photographs have revealed the extensive damage caused to a row of garages following a fire. Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service was called just after 14:00 BST on Sunday to the site off Shrublands Way, Gorleston-on-Sea near Great Yarmouth. The A47 Gorleston Inner Relief Road was closed to allow firefighters to tackle the blaze. A fire service spokesperson said: "A fire investigation is due to start when it is safe to do so." Oliv3r Drone Photography The fire took four hours to extinguish with fire crews from several stations attending Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said crews from Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, Carrow, North Walsham and Wroxham attended. An aerial ladder platform and an incident control unit was also sent to the site. Crews used hose reel jets and hand-held appliances to extinguish the fire, which was dealt with just before 18:00 BST. Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said it warned residents to keep their doors and windows closed as a precaution A Norfolk Fire and Rescue spokesperson said: "When we arrived, we discovered an established fire in a block of garages. "All of the garages and a temporary structure behind the garages were affected by the fire. "A message went out on our Facebook page asking people to avoid the area and for people living nearby to keep their doors and windows closed. "The A47 was closed for a number of hours but that was because we needed to fight the fire from there." Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service said it would start an investigation into the cause of the fire once the site has been made safe
BBC News
05-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Roman cemetery found at Peterborough roadworks site 'unique'
Archaeologists who excavated a Roman cemetery say it is "unique" due to the range of different types of burial and grave goods, including bracelets buried with young dig team has been showing the BBC some of the jewellery discovered at the site at Wansford, near Peterborough, where the A47 is being personal treasures of those buried have been provisionally dated to the late Roman Britain period (3rd-4th Centuries), and include a solid stone coffin containing a corpse set in Archaeology's Jessica Lowther said further investigation of the artefacts would help "answer questions about those that lived here". One of the significant finds is jewellery found in the grave of the child, who was believed to have been about five years old, giving a possible indication of their wealth and high team said it was still unclear what community the cemetery served, as no evidence of other settlement buildings had been found in the immediate Machin, senior specialist at Headland, said the team had been studying the finds at their base at Silsoe in Bedfordshire."It's a collection of bracelets all found with the same child. What it tells us is what people thought about them and what they thought was appropriate to go into the grave," she said."It's a little picture of the community and how they were burying their people."The collection in the child's grave is similar to another grave and suggests a connection." Ms Machin said they could use DNA to establish links."Looking at skeletons we will be able to find out if they are related and what relationships there might be with the rest of the population," she said. The solid stone coffin, or sarchophagus, weighed the same as a small caravan, and featured in the latest series of the BBC's Digging for Britain programme. It was made of Ancaster stone, so the team said it might have been transported 30 miles south from the Lincolnshire village that gives its name to that type of stone, indicating the high status of the person buried in it. Ms Lowther said its lid was made using Barnack stone, which is local to the Peterborough area, therefore it was possible the original lid may have been broken and this was a replacement."This is how we tell stories about people that lived everyday lives. We don't [always] have history books written about us, but archaeology can tell us those stories," she said. She added that the different burial practices in such a small area made the cemetery "unique". These included:the solid stone coffin containing the gypsuma cist burial - using separate slabs of stone forming a coffincremationsgoods placed at both the heads or feet of the skeletondecapitated skeletonsiron nails, suggesting wooden coffins, since decomposed Chris Griffin, National Highways programme lead for the A47 project, said the finds would add to the tapestry of knowledge about the area, including the discovery of a small section of Roman road nearby, which the stone coffin may have been transported on."It's fascinating that we found a Roman road while we were building a road. Isn't that just great? "We didn't know that the road was there but the find shows us how important the A1 and A47 has been, going back to Roman times."Ms Lowther said: "Transporting the gypsum coffin at all would have been a major feat with lifting and manoeuvring, but then to add 30 miles of journey is quite a lot."Pulling the cart on a Roman road, which would have acted a little bit like a cobbled street, would not have been the smoothest." Ms Machin said it was "early stages" in piecing together information about how long the site was in use for burials, its place in the surrounding landscape and the stories of the individuals laid to rest there."What we have got now are all clues. Now we have a huge list of questions and we're moving on to the next stage to see how many answers we can get," she of the items are currently available for the public to see, and Headland said it was too early in the process for any decisions to be made about putting things on reports of all the archaeology found will be uploaded to Peterborough's Historic Environment Record, the team said. Follow Peterborough news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
