Steve Winter's new book
In December, I (Steve) will publish Monetary Redress for Abuse in State Care. The book should be freely available online through the...
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- Oct 31, 2022
- 1 min
13 October 2022 Letter to Minister Hipkins
This letter concerns the government's response to the Royal Commission redress report and encourages speedy improvements to survivors'...
- Jul 30, 2022
- 1 min
28 June 2022 Statement from the College of Psychiatrists
On 28 June 2022 the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists published a statement on the Royal Commission. This...
- Jul 14, 2022
- 1 min
29 June 2022 Letter to Minister Tinetti
Following up on commitments to improve access to records by survivors and related matters.
- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min
11 March 2022 Letter circulated to all MPs
Written to urge the government to pause new legislation relating to the monitoring of children and young people in care until after the...
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
6 December 2021 Letter to the Commission concerning the College of Psychiatrists
We wrote to notify the Commission that we had sought an apology from the Royal Australia New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
RCF work recognised by award
It was nice to get this award for the work the Forum has done advocating for survivors.
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
9 November 2021 Letter to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
The psychiatric profession publicly and in advice to the New Zealand Police supported Dr Leeks personally and endorsed his ‘treatment’...
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
15 November 2021 Letter to the RC on Minute 16
Minute 16 concerns the scope of the inquiry with respect to what ‘being in the care of faith-based institution entails.
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
2 September 2021 Letter to the Commission
This letter to the Commission asked for a meeting to discuss how the Commission was resetting itself in response to the revised terms of...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
26 August 2021 Letter to Minister Tinetti
The Forum had a productive meeting with the Minister on 9 August. During that meeting we drew her attention to the importance of getting...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
6 August 2021 Letter to the Commission
As the Commission's revised terms of reference were publish before we could meet with the Minister, the Forum decided to focus on...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
3 August 2021 Letter to Minister Tinetti
This letter outlines our agenda for the 9 August 2021 meeting with the Minister. You can view it by clicking on the box below.
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
Submission on redress
In response to the Commission's second call for submissions on redress, the Forum provided the following document.
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
14 June 2021 Letter to the Commission
This letter follows up on our meeting of 24 May and indicates that we would be meeting with Minister Tinetti.
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
4 June 2021 Letter to the PM
This letter concerns the forthcoming changes to the Commission's terms of reference. We ask the PM for a meeting to discuss. In her...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
11 March 2021 Letter to the Commission
This letter reponds to the Commission interim report Tawharautia and reports on the Forum February hui. It asks for a meeting with the...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
4 March 2020 Letter to Minister Tracey Martin
This letter calls upon the Minister to appoint a new Commissioner to fill the vacancy left by Anand Satyanand's resignation. You can...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
31 March 2020 letter to the Commission
I (Steve) noticed that we had fallen out of the habit of posting our correspondence on the website. This is a letter the Forum sent the...
- May 14, 2020
- 1 min
New report on the Royal Commission
Today the Forum published its report on the work of the Royal Commission. This report includes a range of recommendations for the ongoing...
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