NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
Some children’s homes in Northern Ireland in the 1960s were relics of a bygone era, the inquiry into institutional child abuse has heard.
The inquiry is examining abuse claims in NI children’s homes and juvenile justice between 1922 and 1995.
Post-war welfare reforms were not adopted by some institutions, the senior counsel to the panel said.
“The evidence suggests that those homes operated as outdated survivors of a bygone age,” said Christine Smith QC.
The biggest ever public inquiry into child abuse ever held in the UK is investigating claims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, as well as childhood neglect.
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