Thousands of people farmed out from mother and baby homes to get nothing in redress scheme
The children of unmarried women ‘boarded out’ to farms from mother and baby homes were often worked hard from a very young age. Photo: Picture posed/stock image
Ciaran Moran
Thousands of people boarded out from mother and baby homes to farms will be excluded from a planned Government redress scheme, Independent Senator Victor Boyhan has said.
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