Mr
Peter Carmine-White 12 Portchester StreetCHRISTCHURCH NZ
Dear Mr Carmine-White
Inquiry into children in institutional care
The
Committee's report Forgotten Australians relating to its inquiry into children in institutional or out of home care
was tabled in the Senate on 30 August 2004. A copy of the report is enclosed for your information. The report will now be considered by the
Government, which will then respond to the Committee's recommendations by making a statement in Parliament.
This
report would not have been possible without the many hundreds of intensely personal and emotive submissions. The Committee
is most grateful and records its thanks to everybody who provided submissions, but especially to all those who relived old
memories and provided not only the graphic and disturbing accounts of their time in care but also of their life stories.
I
have also enclosed a copy of the speeches made by Committee members when the report was tabled in the Senate. Unfortunately,
as it was the last sitting day before the election, not all Committee members had an opportunity to speak to the report.
It
is the Committee's intention to produce a second report by December that will focus on foster care and contemporary issues
of child protection and child welfare.
