UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
A doctor who led an inquiry into the Jimmy Savile scandal is to chair a review of a former care home where it is claimed children were drugged.
Dr Sue Proctor is to chair a panel looking into the treatment of former residents at the Church of England’s Kendall House in Gravesend.
A 2009 BBC investigation found an ex-resident who said she was given drugs more than 1,200 times at the Kent home.
Dr Proctor led inquiries into sex abuse by Savile at Leeds General Infirmary.
Her report in 2014 found 60 people said they were abused at the Leeds hospital by the Ex-BBC DJ, between 1962 and 2009.
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