With no public inquiry or redress payments, campaigners say they've been abandoned.
Northern Ireland's mother and baby home survivors say they feel "completely let down" by the government two years after experts backed a public inquiry into their treatment in the institutions.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Executive Office said it was "working to deliver the executive's commitment to victims and survivors of mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses, implementing the recommendations of the Truth Recovery Design Panel". "After all these years of campaigning, we need the statutory inquiry that was promised. The research has been done, we have read the reports, survivors need action now, before it's too late - many of them are frail and elderly - and how many aren't even about now since this research began?"
"Central to this work is engagement with victims and survivors, including through a monthly consultation forum which has met on 24 occasions," it said.
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