to ensure that these changes were made. A few months after the original inquiry, the Queensland Government issued a progress report. During September 2011, the Government issued a final report responding to all the 42 recommendations. Follow-up reports have verified that substantial progress has been made towards righting decades of incompetence, cruelty and malfeasance. After the commission handed its report to the Government, several youth institutions were decommissioned and closed, and several administrators were prosecuted for crimes against their young charges. Due to the decades that had elapsed since the time of the worst offences, many of the guilty parties had died in the interim. See also Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Catholic sexual abuse cases in Australia Forgotten Australians References Further reading Queensland Families: Future Directions. June 2002. Forgotten Australians: A report on Australians who experienced institutional or out-of-home care as children. August 2004. External links Forgotten Australians at the Queensland Government Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services Child abuse-related organizations Works about child abuse Child abuse in Queensland Government of Queensland History of Queensland 1999 in Australia Public inquiries in Australia Queensland commissions of inquiry