Damning report exposes horror of Lambeth children’s homes going back decades
Council staff “put vulnerable children in the path” of sex offenders, who infiltrated children’s homes and foster care, with “devastating, lifelong consequences for their victims”, a damning report into decades of abuse has found.Employees in the south London borough of Lambeth “treated children in care as if they were worthless” and appeared to demonstrate “a callous disregard for the vulnerable children they were paid to look after”, according to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
Labour closes in on a London mayoral victory for Sadiq Khan on Saturday. With just five of 14 constituencies declared, London’s Labour incumbent Mr Khan was leading with over 427,000 votes, with Ms Hall just over 234,000. The total turnout in the election is 2,495,621, with fewer than half of the results yet to be declared. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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Lambeth Council has apologised "unreservedly" to survivors after the publication of a damning report into decades of sexual abuse in children's homes and foster care from the 1960s to the..
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