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25 March 2017

Migrants from UK urged to give evidence to child abuse inquiry

The Goddard inquiry is concerned about young people transported to Australia and Canada between 1920 and 1970 Men and women transported to Australia and Canada in the child migrant programme are being encouraged to give evidence about the sexual abuse they suffered to Britain’s public inquiry into historic and ongoing child abuse.
The Goddard inquiry, set up in 2014 to examine the abuse of children in public and private institutions, is urging those who may have been victims before and after being removed from the country to come forward as a priority.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/13/migrants-from-uk-urged-to-give-evidence-to-child-abuse-inquiry?CMP=share_btn_tw