Ms Sylda Langford:

Under the legislation the redress board is allowed to give us the name and address and the fact that someone got an award. We cannot use that information to contact anyone. I understand the reason for this is that many people may be married or have families and may never have told their families that they had been in an institution or that they had received an award.

We can act on the information that comes from the Education Finance Board. If residents have received services from the Education Finance Board, we can act on that. We are allowed to use information from the redress board to establish eligibility, but not for any other reason. That is why getting information is so important because we cannot write to someone and state that we understand she was in an institution.