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North Wales child abuse scandal was suppressed


  The Jillings report: How the truth about North Wales child abuse scandal was suppressed


 
The former Bryn Estyn children's home in North Wales
 A damning report that laid bare the North Wales child abuse scandal might have aired the issue of sex attacks on children in care nearly half a decade before an official judicial inquiry in 2000. Instead copies of the report were ordered to be destroyed because the council that commissioned it feared it might be sued,

 This story is incredible. In my opinion, at least as newsworthy as the George Entwistle resignation, or the failures of Newsnight, or the scandal at the BBC, and yet, this article, revealing how Council insurers demanded that the first full investigation into the care home scandal was pulped, and how the Jillings Report was suppressed, is buried on the inside pages of a National Newspaper. This in itself, is indicative of the way in which events at the BBC have been allowed to hijack the front pages of our newspapers and the lead item slots on television news, and become the predominate feature of reporting. The real issue was and remains, the abuse of children at care homes and institutions in this country, going back over many years and the continuing cover up of the extent of that abuse, the people involved and the continuing cover up of the truth. It is intolerable that smoke and mirrors are being used to divert public attention and that important revelations such as those reported in this story are some how relegated to minor status.



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