Children at a school for young offenders were given drugs in an experimental trial approved by Home Office doctors in the 1960s, it has been reported. National Archive files show
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Two men jailed for sexually abusing boys at the Catholic-run school where they taught committed a “gross abuse of trust”, a judge said. John Farrell, 73, and Paul Kelly, 64,
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Professor Alexis Jay is to take over as chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced. The child protection expert will become the
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A man who was sexually abused by a former Catholic priest when he was a teenager said he was left feeling powerless after his abuser was acquitted following two trials.
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Social worker Bernard Waring has been struck off the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Register on grounds of a conviction whilst employed by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
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Scotland Yard’s doomed investigation into VIP paedophile allegations cost around £2.5 million, it has been revealed. Britain’s largest force has confirmed the approximate total spent on the hugely controversial Operation
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A former children’s home worker and Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to sexual assaults against children in the 1970s. Philip Temple, 66, admitted 27 counts of non-recent sexual assault committed
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The chairwoman who has quit the troubled inquiry into child sex abuse has been asked to explain herself to MPs. Dame Lowell Goddard is the third person to resign as
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Dame Lowell Goddard’s decision to quit as head of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse – 18 months after she took on the role – has been met with
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Dame Lowell Goddard has resigned as head of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse Dame Lowell, 67, a New Zealand high court judge, was appointed to lead the inquiry
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