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