Click here to see the Forum's letter to the Minister for Children, Karen Chour, the Commission's analysis of military style 'boot camps'...

On 29 March 2023, the Forum addressed a letter to Andrew Little, Minister for the Public Service urging the goverment to move promptly on...

In December, I (Steve) will publish Monetary Redress for Abuse in State Care. The book is freely available online through the Cambridge...

This letter concerns the government's response to the Royal Commission redress report and encourages speedy improvements to survivors'...

On 28 June 2022 the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists published a statement on the Royal Commission. This...

Following up on commitments to improve access to records by survivors and related matters.

Written to urge the government to pause new legislation relating to the monitoring of children and young people in care until after the...

We wrote to notify the Commission that we had sought an apology from the Royal Australia New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

It was nice to get this award for the work the Forum has done advocating for survivors.

The psychiatric profession publicly and in advice to the New Zealand Police supported Dr Leeks personally and endorsed his ‘treatment’...

Minute 16 concerns the scope of the inquiry with respect to what ‘being in the care of faith-based institution entails.

This letter to the Commission asked for a meeting to discuss how the Commission was resetting itself in response to the revised terms of...

The Forum had a productive meeting with the Minister on 9 August. During that meeting we drew her attention to the importance of getting...

As the Commission's revised terms of reference were publish before we could meet with the Minister, the Forum decided to focus on...

This letter outlines our agenda for the 9 August 2021 meeting with the Minister. You can view it by clicking on the box below.

In response to the Commission's second call for submissions on redress, the Forum provided the following document.

This letter follows up on our meeting of 24 May and indicates that we would be meeting with Minister Tinetti.

This letter concerns the forthcoming changes to the Commission's terms of reference. We ask the PM for a meeting to discuss. In her...

This letter reponds to the Commission interim report Tawharautia and reports on the Forum February hui. It asks for a meeting with the...