N Ireland Executive will lead on Report Recommendations

The First and deputy First Ministers have reached agreement on the shape of a public inquiry into mother and baby institutions.

Full feature on the Belfast Telegraph here

Implementing some of the recommendations of a report into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland could “happen very quickly”, a senior civil servant has told MLAs.

Officials from the Executive Office briefed their Stormont scrutiny committee, where they said work had already begun to put in place a team to work on the recommendations of an expert panel.

Full feature on this in the Belfast Telegraph here

 

BBC Coverage:

The executive office will press ahead with implementing the recommendations of a report into mother-and-baby homes in Northern Ireland, the first minister has confirmed.

The report, which also examined a number of workhouses and four Magdalene laundries, was published last month.

Full feature on BBC here