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Nearly the end of the beginning of a never-ending story

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Chris Goddard
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Abstract

The abuse of children in residential care has been one of the major scandals of the 1990s. This paper examines the largest child abuse inquiry ever held in Britain, the public inquiry into abuse of children in Children’s Homes in North Wales. The story, it is suggested, is almost too large to comprehend and too scandalous to absorb. One major lesson to be considered is that hundreds of victims each had his or her own story to tell but few people were prepared to listen.

Type
Not the last word: point and counterpoint
Information
Children Australia , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , 1998 , pp. 41 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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