Infant mortality rates at Northern Ireland baby homes ‘huge unanswered question’

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The fate of infants who may have died in baby homes in Northern Ireland remains a huge unanswered question, MLAs have been told.

Judith Gillespie, who chairs Stormont’s inter-departmental working group examining the operation of mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries, told the Assembly’s Health Committee that issues around missing death records should be a key focus of any future investigation into the institutions.