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The Māori Assistant Commissioner for Children says there is nothing in place to stop the continued abuse of children in care.
The first interim report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry released yesterday says since 1950 up to 655,000 people had been placed in state or faith-based care, and almost a third had suffered some form of abuse.
Glenis Philip-Barbara says that s probably an under-estimate, and she’s concerned at an estimate that four in five of those abused were Māori.
She says while the Office of the Children’s Commission has a role to monitor large state residences, children they feel unsafe to complain.