A 12-week consultation is set to start this week in Northern Ireland, to discuss the proposals to establish an inquiry into mother and baby homes in the country, through which some 10,500 unmarried girls and women passed between 1922 and 1990. A third were under the age of 19, the youngest aged just 12.
For more on the story visit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckvvgd01p84o
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