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The Waterhouse report recommended that there be a massive overhaul of the way in which children in care are dealt with by local councils, social services and the police. The post of [[Children's Commissioner for Wales]] was created as a result of one of the 72 recommendations.<ref name="The Guardian Q&A"/> |
The Waterhouse report recommended that there be a massive overhaul of the way in which children in care are dealt with by local councils, social services and the police. The post of [[Children's Commissioner for Wales]] was created as a result of one of the 72 recommendations.<ref name="The Guardian Q&A"/> |
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In 1997, [[Mark Stephens (solicitor)]] & Sir [[Louis Blom-Cooper]] QC had been retained by the survivors of abuse to represent their interests before the Waterhouse Tribunal of Inquiry into the Wales child abuse scandal. Together they successfully proposed, the then novel idea, of a [[Children's Commissioner for Wales]] (and the other Home Countries) so that children would have a safe and secure place to report abuse as well as to advocate their rights. Waterhouse eventually reported adopting this key recommendation in 2000. |
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In the year following the report, 140 compensation claims were settled with victims of the abuse.<ref name="BBC"/> |
In the year following the report, 140 compensation claims were settled with victims of the abuse.<ref name="BBC"/> |
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The Wales child abuse scandal was the subject of a three-year, £13 million investigation into the sexual abuse of children in care homes in North Wales over two decades.[1]
In 1996, the then Secretary of State for Wales, William Hague, ordered an inquiry into allegations of hundreds of cases of child abuse in care homes in former county council areas of Clwyd and Gwynedd between 1974 and 1990. Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC, a retired High Court judge,[2] was appointed to head the inquiry, which began in 1997 and reported in 2000.[1]
The Waterhouse report recommended that there be a massive overhaul of the way in which children in care are dealt with by local councils, social services and the police. The post of Children's Commissioner for Wales was created as a result of one of the 72 recommendations.[1]
In the year following the report, 140 compensation claims were settled with victims of the abuse.[2]
In 2005, the cultural historian Richard Webster published The Secret of Bryn Estyn, the result of his comprehensive investigation of the North Wales child abuse scandal. It is highly critical of the Waterhouse Inquiry, and discovers a number of cases of innocent care workers imprisoned as a consequence of false and unsubstantiated accusations elicited by police trawling operations.
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