Public Service Commissioner Peter Hughes has apologised to state care abuse survivors at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care this afternoon.
Hughes was also chief executive of the Ministry of Social Development for ten years up until 2011. He says, when he was in charge of the Ministry, it let down survivors Keith Wiffin, Paul White and Earl White in particular.
The Commissioner says staff lost sight of the human beings at the center of the claims - and caused them further harm.
Peter Hughes says he is committed to leading change across all public services.
In particular, he says Oranga Tamariki needs to listen harder to what in children in care, want.
