After eight days of harrowing testimonies, the country should be ashamed at how survivors of disability, deaf and mental health institutional care were treated, an IHC worker says.
The sister of a disabled woman has described the state care institution her younger sibling lived in for decades as a "hellhole" and her devastation on learning of the physical abuse and neglect her sister suffered.
An Auckland school will come under scrutiny this week over its past record of disabled students being abused by a teacher.
Kelston School for the Deaf is o
The Royal Commission opens a public hearing today focusing on state institutions which provided disabled, deaf and people who suffered mental distress for these people between 1950 and 1999.