“We want to make people aware of the upcoming deadline so that victims-survivors, family members or anyone with experience or information about any of the institutions on our list (or about the related pathways and practices in which they were involved) has time to contact us if they are interested in sharing their experience,” they said.
It is also to make recommendations on a permanent independent archive of records related to historical institutions, the individuals who spent time in them, adoption records, and other records relating to children in state care.
The Truth Recovery Independent Panel, which is investigating the institutions, has asked for anyone who wishes to give evidence about their experience to register to do so by Thursday May 1.
A final call has been made for survivors of former mother and baby home and Magdalen institutions in Northern Ireland to come forward and give testimony.
Some 140 people have already given testimony to the panel, and there is a particular call for those with knowledge of Protestant institutions to come forward.
