The report has also recommended a fund be set up, with contributions from the states and the churches, so children who suffered abuse can claim compensation outside the court system.
Committee chair, Labor's Jan McLucas, says the report calls for an independent review body to investigate complaints.
She has told the Senate that in the meantime groups involved in providing institutional care should be more transparent.
"We have called on the churches and other care providing organisations to open their books and to allow care leavers all the information which has been collected about them," she said.
"We have said if this does not occur then the only course of action is for the Federal Government to implement a royal commission."
By Just Us 30 August 04
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