UK Inquiry: Children in Care Homes Faced Decades of Abuse

UK Inquiry: Children in Care Homes Faced Decades of Abuse
Lambeth Town Hall, the home of Lambeth Council, in south London on July 27, 2021. Yui Mok/PA
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LONDON—A British public inquiry into child sexual abuse said Tuesday that hundreds of children in the care of a London authority faced “hard to comprehend” levels of abuse and neglect over several decades.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said that between the 1960s and the 1990s, local authority staff in the south London borough of Lambeth treated children in their care as if they were “worthless.”