Abuse inquiry: ‘No’ to Health’s claim for £1.8m in costs
Wednesday 15th April 2009, 2:56PM BST.
JERSEY’S Health Department has had a £1.8 million claim for costs for the historical child abuse inquiry rejected by Treasury.
The JEP understands that the department has been asked to justify a part of the claim which asks for £864,000 to cover costs for the psychology trauma support team, which provides support for victims of abuse.
It is believed that the sum is considered to be far too high. The claims were contained in a proposition which was briefly lodged by the Treasury Department before being withdrawn last week following concerns over the money being requested.
Treasury Minister Senator Philip Ozouf (pictured) said that it was essential that the sums being claimed by departments could be justified.
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Too high? Just remember how many abuse survivors there are, yes? Again, its money and the Establishment that matter, not the survivors…disgusting
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Thank heavens for some common sense from the Council of Ministers at last.
Perhaps now they will be able to see through the spin of Health and Social Services information management machine.
My guess is the £1.8m has nothing to do with any abuse enquiry, but was a convenient vehicle to obtain extra money to conceal the mismanagement within Health.
Now Senator Perchard has gone, perhaps attention should be turned to the CEO of health and serious questions asked about his management of the service.
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The right choice.
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Tony – think about how much of that money actually goes to the victims.
The survivors have had councilling – no other form of money has been spent on them and even if there were over 3000 victims the bill wouldn’t be that high
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Why haven’t they rejected the overspend on the incinerator as well then?
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