Victorian Government response to the report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, Bringing them home
Overview -- Healing the hurt : Acknowledgement, apology and education ; Education reunion and cultural heritage -- Best practice in supporting Koori families : Review of out-of-home care services for Aboriginal children and young people ; Aboriginal family preservation project ; Koori services improvement strategy -- Monitoring implementation -- Recommendations : Recording testimonies ; Procedure for implementation ; Components of reparations -- Claimants -- Acknowledgment and apology - Parliaments and police forces -- School education -- Pofessional training -- Genocide convention -- Language, culture and history centres -- Indigenous identification ; Heads of damage ; ,National compensation fund ; National compensation fund board ; Procedural principles ; Minimum lump sum ; Destruction of records prohibited ; Record preservation ; Joint records taskforces ; Inter-state enquires -- Minimum access standards -- Indigenous famil information service -- Training -- Indigenous repositories -- Return of those removed overseas -- Research -- Indigenous well being model -- Health professional training -- Mental health worker training -- Parenting skills -- Prisoner services -- Private collections -- Counselling services -- Land holdings -- Social justice --Self determination
Summary
Discusses commitment of the Victorian government to make reparation to the Victorian Koori people for forcible removal of children; outlines Victorian government's response to each recommendation of the 'Bringing them Home' report
Notes
"17 November 1997"
Cover title
Report commonly known as the Stolen children report or the Stolen generations report