Joint Submission to the Office of the Minister for Children on the Implementation of the Ryan Report Recommendations
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Author
Barnardos
CARI
Children’s Rights Alliance
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre
ISPCC
One in Four
Rape Crisis Network Ireland
Date
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Citation
Barnardos, CARI, Children’s Rights Alliance, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, ISPCC, One in Four & Rape Crisis Network Ireland. (ND). Joint Submission to the Office of the Minister for Children on the Implementation of the Ryan Report Recommendations. https://knowledge.barnardos.ie/handle/20.500.13085/659
Abstract
The publication of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report affords us the opportunity to acknowledge the great failings of the Irish State in its past protection of children placed in its care. It is essential that all steps necessary are taken to recognise the experiences of the survivors of institutional abuse and to ensure continued support and solidarity with those who had their childhoods shattered and lives damaged by these experiences. In common with all those who joined the March of Solidarity, we fully support the demands for justice made by the Survivors, and especially their demands for the establishment of an independently-managed Trust, funded by significant additional contributions from the Congregations, to continue to make reparation to survivors and their families. However, we must act also in the interests of ensuring that the children of today and tomorrow are respected and protected from abuse and neglect. In the implementation of the Commission’s recommendations, the Government has an opportunity to improve the current child protection systems and services to ensure that the State never again fails children so comprehensively. Both legislative and systemic reforms are needed if we are to ensure that children in Ireland are adequately protected and never again left so vulnerable to the horrendous abuse and neglect suffered by those abandoned in the institutions of the past.