UNITED KINGDOM
Rochdale Online
Cambridge House boys’ home and Knowl View, in Rochdale, will be investigated, including claims relating to the late Cyril Smith, by Justice Lowell Goddard as part of the wide ranging inquiry into allegations of child sexual abuse and subsequent cover ups.
Justice Lowell Goddard said Rochdale Council, along with Lambeth and Nottinghamshire councils, will also be examined as part of 12 separate investigations in England and Wales.
The scale of the inquiry was “unprecedented” in the UK, but she was determined it would succeed, she added.
The inquiry is due to take five years.
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