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2001-1031 - A City Possessed - Extract On ACC
pages 88-94, by Lynley Hood
2001-1008
- Daily News - Big response to Sexual Abuse Flyer
page 3 by Mark Birch – Many Taranaki people have responded to a Christchurch
law firm's offer to help victims of sexual abuse gain compensation. Taranaki
is one of several areas chosen by Wakefield and Associates for the
distribution of flyers publicising the rights of victims to gain lump sums
and wide-ranging, ongoing compensation from the Accident Rehabilitation and
Compensation Insurance Corporation (ACC)
2001-0321
- Otago Daily Times - $100m in sexual abuse claims
More than 47,000 people claiming to have been sexually abused have
received $100 million in cash and counselling from ACC since 1992. Most - about 80% - were adults claiming
for sexual abuse that happened when they were children
2001-0315 - The
Press - ACC pays $94m on abuse claims
by Diana McCurdy - Auckland
University senior
lecturer Felicity Goodyear-Smith said she was concerned that ACC's approach
was not scientifically proven. "As far as I know, there's no scientific
evidence at all that says sexual abuse counselling has any useful
outcome." She said those who were suffering ongoing problems as a result
of sexual abuse needed to have their current problems addressed, rather than
those that had occurred in the past.
2001-0314 -
Herald - Elderly sex abuse victims speak out
by Bridget Carter - ”….ACC
yesterday released guidelines for counsellors dealing with adult survivors of
child sexual abuse. ACC spokeswoman
Kathryn Griffiths says that since ACC developed a special sex-abuse unit in
1992, it has accepted over 47,000 claims. About 80 per cent of those are from
adults sexually abused during childhood.
2001-0314
- Waikato Times - ACC pays $100 million to sexual abuse claimants
by NZPA - Sexual assault researcher Felicity Goodyear-Smith said past fears
that many claims were false, arising from suspect repressive memory therapy
sessions, had subsided since the early 1990s when a phenomenon of false
claims was at its peak. Dr
Goodyear-Smith believed many of the lump-sum payments made by ACC in the
early 1990s would have been inappropriate. About 98 per cent of claims made
then were granted on the basis of what someone remembered had happened to
them. The claims were seldom tested.
2001-0314 -
Dominion - Sex abuse: 47,000 get compo of $100m
by Leah Haines - More than 47,000 people claiming to have been sexually
abused have received $100 million in cash and counselling from ACC since
1992. Most -- about 80 per cent -- were adults claiming for sexual abuse that
happened when they were children, according to statistics issued by the
Accident Rehabilitation Compensation and Insurance Corporation yesterday.
2001-0313
- ACC - Helping Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
by ACC - ACC is today releasing therapy guidelines for counsellors dealing
with adult survivors of child sexual abuse at a launch in Auckland.
Written by Auckland Psychologist Kim McGregor, “Therapy Guidelines:
Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse” give New Zealand counsellors the
latest and leading information on abuse and trauma therapy from around the
world.
2001-0122
- National Party - Nats policy of more ACC providers successful
by Gerry Brownlee - "It would be hugely disappointing if the
reckless behaviour of a few saw the return of tougher rules limiting the
types and numbers of health professionals ACC officially recognises
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