Ad campaign aimed at child abuse victims gets huge response

THERE has been a huge response to an advertising campaign urging victims of institutional abuse to make contact with a redress board set up to assess their compensation claims.

It looks as if the Residential Institutions Redress Board caseload will surpass that of the Laffoy Commission, established in 2000 to listen to and investigate childhood sexual abuse claims. The radio and television advertisements, first broadcast on Monday, follow the board’s newspaper advertisement that appeared at the start of December last year.

They are directed at people who suffered abuse as children in a residential institution and who may be entitled to compensation from the Redress Board. “The phones have been hopping all day ,” a spokesperson for the board said yesterday.