VOYCE – Care Experienced Advocate Ihorangi Reweti-Peters says yesterday’s apology to the survivors of abuse in state and faith-based care offered no closure and wholesale systemic change is needed.
Yesterday, he joined other survivors at Parliament for the national apology event, with survivors who could not attend watching a public broadcast of the apology across the motu.
Reweti-Peters says many survivors like himself want all executive structures of the departments involved in the abuse cleaned from the hara.
“There should be a fresh set of new leaders come in who haven’t had involvement within what has happened to so many tamariki, rangatahi and whānau throughout the care system and our faith-based institutions,” says Reweti-Peters.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced the government will invest $32 million to improve the current redress system, aiming to implement a new system next year.
Ihorangi Reweti-Peters says the government has been presented with a solution since 2021, and next year is not good enough.
