Apologies to former child migrants
IICSA · Child Migration Programmes Investigation Report · Issued 1 March 2018 · Addressed to: Child Migration Institutions
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, I
The Chair and Panel have recommended that institutions involved in the child migration programmes who have not apologised for their role should give such apologies as soon as possible. Apologies should not only be made through public statements but specifically to those child migrants for whose migration they were responsible.
IICSA, Child Migration Programmes Investigation Report · 1 Mar 2018
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
- In May 2023, the government confirmed that the majority of named institutions had apologised as recommended (Government Response to IICSA Final Report, HM Government, May 2023).
Response — verbatim from government
●UK Government
An apology by the Sisters of Nazareth was repeated during the Child migration programmes investigation (p126). Between January 2020 and July 2020, Action for Children, Barnardo's, Catholic Church in England and Wales, Church of England, Cornwall Council, Father Hudson's Care, Royal Over-Seas League, The Salvation Army UK, The Children's Society and The Prince's Trust apologised to former child migrants.
UK Government · 22 May 2023 Written response →
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
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