Reparations in Northern Ireland – A duty to victims? - Transitional ...

(An Annual budget of
£1.8m)
RUC Reserve Gratuity
Payment Scheme
RUC Pre-1982 Widows
package November
2000
RUC
bereaved/seriously
injured fund November
2000
NI Memorial Fund
2010-2011
3. Rehabilitation
£20m 6000 11 £3,333
£2m 80 £25,000
£9m 12 TBC TBC 13
£1,515,370 14 2,708 £560
The rehabilitation of victims and survivors is defined as the provision of medical and
psychological care and the provision of legal and social services, and so one could contend that a
number of government initiatives have gone some way to meeting those needs
In 2009 the Stormont Executive endorsed a Victims and Survivors 10 year strategy
built around the three strands of dealing with past, meeting present need and
building for future
The establishment of the Commission for Victims and Survivors in 2009 set in place
statutory provision for reviewing law, practice and services relating to victims and
the need to ensure victims voices were heard at the heart of government. The
Commission’s focus in the current year is the preparation of a Comprehensive Needs
Assessment which will report in March 2012 and quantify need around areas such as
physical and mental health and well-being, social support, truth, justice and
acknowledgement and personal development
In the current funding period for government, £36 million has been allocated to
victims and survivors and provides a range of support including social support,
training and personal development, advocacy support, funding to meet health and
well-being needs (primarily listening ear and counselling services), befriending
4. Satisfaction
Providing satisfaction to victims and survivors may include initiatives and processes such as truthseeking,
the search for the disappeared, public apologies, judicial and administrative sanctions and
commemoration and memorialisation..
10
This is the total number of grants paid in 2010/2011 and it is possible applicants received more than one
grant
11
Exact number not know as yet, this is based on press reports – numbers have been requested from DoJ
12
A total of £11m announced of which £2m was to address inequalities in pensions to widows bereaved prior
to 1982
13
This provided funding to the NI Police Fund for a number of years, exact breakdown to be confirmed
14
NIMF Financial Assistance, non-means tested schemes for one year only
6