Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry: List of Homes Investigated

BBC News
January 20, 2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-38692627

Hearings were held into 22 of the institutions - facilities run by the state, local authorities, the Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, and Barnardo's

The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) was established to investigate child abuse that occurred in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period from 1922 to 1995.

The following is a complete list of homes and institutions investigated by it:

Local authority homes

Lissue Hospital, Lisburn

Kincora Boys' Home, Belfast

Bawnmore Children's Home, Newtownabbey

Fort James and Harberton House, Londonderry

Juvenile justice institutions

St Patrick's Training School, Belfast

Lisnevin Training School, County Down

Rathgael Training School, Bangor

Hydebank Young Offenders' Centre

Millisle Borstal

Secular voluntary homes

Barnardo's Sharonmore Project, Newtownabbey

Barnardo's Macedon, Newtownabbey

Roman Catholic voluntary homes

St Joseph's Home, Termonbacca, Londonderry

Nazareth House Children's Home, Londonderry

Nazareth House Children's Home, Belfast

Nazareth Lodge Children's Home, Belfast

De La Salle Boys' Home, Rubane House, Kircubbin

St Joseph's Training School for Girls, Middletown, County Armagh

Institutions run by the Good Shepherd Sisters in Derry, Belfast and Newry

Church of Ireland

Manor House, a children's home near Lisburn

The inquiry also held public hearings into two other matters,

The practice of child migration, in the 1950s, where children were sent from Catholic, Protestant and local authority homes in Northern Ireland to homes in Australia.

Fr Brendan Smyth, a member of the Norbertine Order, who was convicted of offences relating to children in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and who was alleged to have abused children within a number of children's homes within Northern Ireland.

Seven organisations were regarded as "core participants" meaning they were expected to play a key role in assisting the inquiry.

It sought evidence and vast amounts of historical documents from:

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety

Department of Justice

Health and Social Care Board

Sisters of Nazareth

De La Salle

Barnardo's

Irish Church Missions