A trainee social worker at a children’s home in Derry run by the Sisters of Nazareth has accused nuns of being regimented and controlling and of resisting new approaches to childcare.
The witness, who cannot be named, told the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry said she volunteered at St Joseph’s home Termonbacca
when still a teenager before being offered paid work there as a
houseparent. She also attended social work training part-time, paid for
by the nuns.