ISPCC ‘did not conduct inspections of industrial schools’
The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) has told the Child Abuse Commission that its inspectors did not visit industrial schools to monitor children.
ISPCC chief executive Paul Gilligan told the commission today that the organisation's inspectors were known as "cruelty men" between the 1930s and 1960s.
He said they were usually contacted by the general public or often parents themselves and would visit family homes and try to affect change through supports like medical care.
He said committing children to industrial schools was a last resort and was only sought if there was no other way out.
Mr Gilligan also admitted that there was no material to suggest these inspectors ever visited the industrial schools of knew of the regimes that were in place in such facilities.
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