The Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme (MBIPS) is inherently discriminatory and serves to exacerbate the multifarious existing inequalities associated with forced family separation. The scheme’s limited remit has the effect of excluding the vast majority of affected people, either because they were not confined in an institution named in the Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme Act, or because they were not institutionalised at all.

The Clann Project is currently drafting submissions to national and international human rights bodies on the scheme and other issues. The submissions will be made available on this page.

Consistent with our commitment to transparency and accountability, Clann is also publishing documentation we have obtained relating to the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme. Click here to learn more. 

previous updates

Click here for our 2023 email campaign on the legislation underpinning the redress scheme.

The Clann Project’s recommendations on the redress scheme are available here.

The Clann Project’s guide to the government’s consultation on the scheme (the OAK consultation) is available here.

Click here for previous updates on the redress scheme.