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• ‘We’ve waited long enough’: Victorian government to pay $276m for those abused in state care

  11-05-2024 22:00
  
  Allan government allocates $165m towards redress for victims of historical abuse and neglect in institutional care, while $111.4m will be spent on civil claimsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIn a secret meeting as Victoria’s budget was being announced, the full scale of the historical abuse of children in state care – and its impact on the government’s finances – was being laid
  
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• Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK

  11-05-2024 12:00
  
  Observer and Bureau of Investigative Journalism find that workers whose sponsoring company had been sanctioned were also being punishedThousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers.In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK, only to find they had been scammed, were told they must find another comp
  
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