NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Times
Dan Keenan
A judicial inquiry into child abuse in Northern Ireland residential care homes over more than seven decades opens today.
Under investigation is the treatment of children in a range of children’s homes, borstals, training schools, juvenile justice centres, hospitals and orphanages between 1922 and 1995.
Sir Anthony Hart QC will chair proceedings which, under the terms of the inquiry, must end by mid-2015 and report by January the following year.
The inquiry, ordered by the Stormont Executive in January last year, will sit in Banbridge courthouse in Co Down.
A total of 13 institutions are under investigation by the inquiry in relation to allegations of historical institutional abuse and/or neglect. The inquiry has the power to decide to investigate other institutions.
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