***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 06:30 Presentation starts at 04:30 Evidence from Sonja Cooper and Amanda Hill on behalf of Cooper Legal addressed: The beginnings of the civil claims against the State for abuse in psychiatric hospitals and Social Welfare care; How the claims grew, and how the State responded – with a mixture of ‘listening’ forums and fierce, uncompromising defence in the Court; How State mechanisms such as the Courts and Legal Aid played a role in the claims process; The role of our human rights law – both national and international – in progressing the civil claims; Settlement processes both past and current, and why they are not fit for purpose; and The disadvantages experienced by many survivors, including: less access to information; fewer resources to obtain help; often poor literacy or mental health and economic circumstances which pressure them to accept amounts of compensation which do not reflect their experiences; and What they see as the way forward for the claims process as part of a larger truth and reconciliation process.

***Distressing content warning*** Ms O’Hagan provided historical context of abuse in the psychiatric system, including as it relates to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, key milestones between 1950 and 1999 and the survivor movement.

***Distressing content warning*** Dr Stace gave a disability perspective on the road to the Royal Commission.

***Distressing content warning*** Dr Mirfin-Veitch was the Director of the Donald Beasley Institute (DBI) at the time of the hearing, an independent research institute specialising in disability reasearch.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:00:15 Sir Kim Workman (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitaane) gave evidence about his early experience as a Police youth aid officer in the 1970s, and his subsequent work detailing the racial profiling of Māori and the disproportionate number of Māori in care.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:05:10 Presentation starts at 00:00:25 As one of the members of the Nelson Māori committee and the Auckland Committee on Racial Discrimination (ACORD), Dr Sutherland spent 15 years campaigning and advocating on behalf of many children who were in State care during the 1970s and 1980s.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:00:25 As a freelance investigative journalist and photographer, and with lived experience of state intervention having been adopted and raised outside of his natural whānau, Mr Smale (Ngāti Porou, Ngā Puhi, Whakatohea) has covered the stories of children in state custody as a Māori social issue.

***Distressing content warning*** Mr Taito gave evidence about his experience as a Samoan New Zealander being removed from his family as a child following intervention by the State.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:01:00 Presentation starts at 00:00:30 At the time of the hearing Dr Alison Green (Ngati Awa (Ngati Pukeko), Ngati Ranginui (Ngaitamarawaho) Ngaiterangi (Ngaitukairangi)) was a researcher at Te Kotahi Research Institute, University of Waikato.

***Distressing content warning*** Presentation starts at 00:02:40 At the time of the hearing Dr Rawiri Waretini-Karena (Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāti Māhuta, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Kāhu, Te Rarawa) was a lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiarangi.