NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News

Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) has been accused of providing misleading information to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.

The inquiry’s chairman, Sir Anthony Hart, criticised the HSCB for its response to a request for welfare records about two children.

He accused the HSCB of “regurgitating” information that the inquiry had already provided to it.

Sir Anthony Hart said: “This is misleading. I am not impressed.”

The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) is examining child abuse in religious and state-run institutions in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1995.

As part of its investigations, the HIA had asked the HSCB for welfare records about the two children who were sent to Australia in the last century.