Victims of historical abuse and neglect in Victoria’s institutional care system will receive a long-overdue apology in state parliament.

Premier Jacinta Allan will deliver a formal apology to care leavers on behalf of the government for historical abuse and neglect.

Between 1928 and 1990, an estimated 90,000 Victorian children were placed into institutions such as orphanages, children’s homes and missions run by the state or religious groups.

Thousands of them suffered abuse and neglect.

“It’s important we acknowledge that hurt,” Allan wrote on social media.

More than 200 guests have been invited to parliament for the event.

Those who missed out can watch the apology online from 11.30am or at live sites in Geelong, Ballarat and Sale with counsellors on hand.

The apology was scheduled to be delivered on November 29 but it was pushed back to give victims and advocates more time to prepare.

Former premier Steve Bracks issued a formal apology to former wards of the state for institutional abuse and neglect following the recommendation of a 2004 federal report.

In 2018, former prime minister Scott Morrison delivered a national apology to institutional sex abuse victims and survivors after a federal royal commission.

Former premier Daniel Andrews pledged to deliver a formal apology in parliament to survivors of all forms of abuse in institutional settings if Labor was re-elected in 2022, tying the two previous apologies together.

A redress scheme for those who suffered abuse or neglect in state care over the six-decade span is still to be rolled out.

A separate apology has also been promised by the state government to students abused at Beaumaris Primary School in Melbourne’s southeast from the 1960s until 1999.

– AAP