UNITED KINGDOM
Yellow Advertiser
26 April 2018
by Charles Thomson – Chief Reporter
The YA’s front page last month, when Essex Council refused to release the ‘Kenward Report’.
ESSEX Council has refused to answer basic questions about an inquiry linking some of its former employees to alleged child sex abuse.
For the second time this year, County Hall has refused to release details of the ’Kenward Report’, commissioned in the late 1990s to probe allegations that child protection staff abused kids in care.
The Taxpayers’ Alliance described the council’s refusal to answer basic questions as ’ludicrous’, whilst the founder of a leading child abuse charity said the ongoing secrecy gave the impression that the council ’have something to hide’.
The ’Kenward Report’ was penned by independent child protection expert Helen Kenward, who had conducted high profile abuse inquiries for other local authorities.
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