Govt to outlaw strip-searching of children in response to abuse in state care [Video]

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is expected to detail the Government’s legislative response to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in state care.

Luxon will host a post-Cabinet press conference at 4pm and is likely to be joined by Erica Stanford, the minister responsible for the Government’s response to the inquiry.

A livestream can be found at the top of this article.

Luxon and Stanford were expected to outline the Government’s proposed changes to current legislation aimed at making the state care system safer after the inquiry estimated 200,000 children, young people and adults were abused in care between 1950-2019.

As reported by Newsroom in October, among the 230 recommendations from the inquiry were calls to amend at least 10 laws as well as creating a new Care Safety Act and Care Safe Agency to regulate the state and faith-based care organisations.

Survivors of abuse have been vocal in their …