The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care has resumed public hearings, delayed from April due to the Covid 19 lockdown.
The commission is investigating abuse in state and faith-based care between 1950 and 1999.
Over the next two weeks it will hear the experiences from victims of abuse into how they tried to seek redress from the Crown.
Māni Dunlop spoke to RNZ reporter Andrew McRae.