Report: Dame Janet Smith Inquiry report into BBC Abuse
The BBC Trust has published in full the report by Dame Janet Smith DBE of her inquiry into the BBC’s culture and practices during the Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall
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Dame Janet Smith report an ‘expensive whitewash’, says victims’ lawyer
Victims of Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall will feel let down by the Dame Janet Smith report and will see it as “an expensive whitewash”, according to a lawyer representing
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Child abuse inquiry taking some evidence ‘as a matter of urgency’
An independent inquiry into the abuse of children in care is to take evidence from some seriously-ill and elderly victims “as a matter of urgency”, its chair has announced. Susan
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Abuse inquiry judge set to name institutions facing investigation
Institutions facing investigation in the independent abuse inquiry are set to be identified. Justice Lowell Goddard, who is leading the probe, will make a statement on its progress later. It
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Child abuse victims to begin giving testimonies to Truth Project inquiry
Child abuse victims will begin giving testimonies for the first time next week about their ordeal as part of the huge independent inquiry into alleged sexual abuse in Westminster and
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Metropolitan Police bring historic abuse inquiries under single command
Scotland Yard has brought all its ongoing historic child sex abuse investigations together under the control of a single team of detectives. Operation Midland, which is investigating allegations of murder
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New panel members appointed to Scotland’s Historic Child Abuse Inquiry
Two panel members have been appointed to Scotland’s Historic Child Abuse Inquiry by Education Secretary Angela Constance. Glenn Houston and Professor Michael Lamb will undertake the important work of the
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More trouble for child abuse inquiry as adviser Peter McKelvie resigns
The troubled inquiry into historical child abuse has been hit by a fresh blow after an adviser resigned. Former child protection manager Peter McKelvie announced he had “reluctantly” concluded it
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Government child abuse inquiry loses information provided by victims
Information provided by victims to the independent child abuse inquiry has been deleted, it has emerged. The inquiry said that due to a change in its website address on September
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Inquiry into historical care abuse gets under way in Scotland
A public inquiry into the historical abuse of children in care in Scotland will formally start its work today. The Scottish Government pledged to ”shine a light in the dark
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