New phase of supports for survivors of institutional abuse approved

Education Minister Norma Foley announced a package of ongoing health, education, and advocacy supports for survivors has been approved. 

The Government has approved a package of ongoing health, education, and advocacy supports for survivors of institutional abuse following the wind-down of the State redress agency.

Caranua has paid out €98m to approximately 6,000 survivors since it was first set up in the wake of the landmark findings of the Commission of Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA), also known as the Ryan Report, published in 2009.