9 Nov 2024

Ahead of the Abuse in Care apology

From Saturday Morning, 7:30 am on 9 November 2024
Keith Wiffin

Keith Wiffin Photo: Aaron Smale / @ikon_media

Next Tuesday the government will formally apologise to survivors of abuse in care.

Between 1950 and 1999 an estimated 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused and even more neglected.

In its landmark report the royal commission into the abuse described it as "unimaginable" and a "national disgrace".

One of the survivors, Keith Wiffin tells Susie what he thinks about the upcoming apology.

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