NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
14 JANUARY 2014
Some children’s homes in Northern Ireland were operating as outdated survivors of a bygone age by the 1960s, a lawyer has told an inquiry into historical abuse.
Decades of physical, sexual and emotional suffering were inflicted upon the most vulnerable by the church, state and voluntary organisations, it has been alleged.
Retired judge Sir Anthony Hart is chairing the UK’s largest ever investigation into child abuse in residential homes over seven decades.
A senior lawyer to the investigating panel, Christine Smith QC, said welfare reforms introduced by the Northern Ireland government after the Second World War were not adopted by some institutions.
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