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Disability, Deaf, And Mental Health Institutional Care Hearing Day Three Schedule
Survivors of abuse and neglect in psychiatric and psychopaedic institutions, as well as people from the Deaf or Disabled Community will continue sharing evidence today at an Abuse in Care Royal Commission public hearing.
From 11-20 July, the Royal Commission will hear survivors speak about the physical, sexual, emotional, abuse and neglect, including physical, medical, emotional, educational, and cultural neglect, experienced in State care. We will also hear from experts and from staff who worked in psychopaedic and psychiatric institutions.
The hearing will examine the use of control and restraint in disability and mental health care.It will also look at the adequacy and availability of complaints procedures and impacts of long-term institutionalisation on survivors and their whānau.
The hearing is taking place at Tii Tu Tahi, Level 2, 414 Khyber Pass Road, Tāmaki-Makaura. It is open to the public and will be live-streamed with New Zealand Sign Language interpreters.
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