UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post
By Rob Parsons
Published on the 12 April 2014
A LEEDS school at the centre of a new Jimmy Savile child sex abuse probe hosted the disgraced presenter for a prize-giving ceremony in the 1970s, it has emerged.
Notre Dame Grammar School, now known as Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College in Woodhouse, is one of three sites in and around the city where allegations about Savile’s activities in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are being investigated at the order of Education Secretary Michael Gove.
When the probe of 21 schools and children’s homes nationwide was revealed last month, the Diocese of Leeds, which runs Notre Dame, said it carried out its own investigation after the revelations first emerged about Savile in 2012.
Spokesman John Grady said at the time it “could find no evidence that Jimmy Savile had any contact with Notre Dame school or any of our [diocesan] children’s homes”.
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