UNITED KINGDOM
Yorkshire Post
Flowers have been laid in Westminster to commemorate the victims of child abuse – described by one survivor as the “forgotten people”.
The WhiteFlowers Campaign is calling on the Home Office to declare a statutory inquiry focusing on organised and institutional child abuse from 1945, linking with other inquiries across the UK. Among those laying flowers at Old Palace Yard, next to the Houses of Parliament, were survivors and MPs.
The group of about 40 people laid a variety of flowers among pictures of victims before a meeting in Parliament to discuss the inquiry and to call for more to be done to help survivors achieve justice.
MPs John Mann, Simon Danczuk and Sarah Champion joined the victims, including 58-year-old Jenny Tomlin, mother of former Eastenders star Martine McCutcheon.
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