Survivors of Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes in the North are being encouraged to come forward and share their experience with a working group investigating the institutions.

Survivors of mother and baby homes in the North where children were forcibly put up for adoption have called for the establishment of an all-Ireland body to help reunite families.

An organisation set up to address the abuse of young unmarried women in mother and baby homes in the North is calling on those affected by the Catholic institutions to make contact.