The Independent - London, October 23rd, 1996
A national commission of inquiry into child abuse called yesterday for a fundamental shift of emphasis and resources towards the prevention of child abuse, and for independent commissioners to promote children's rights and welfare. There should also be a new minister for children, at minister of state level, with a brief to co-ordinate child protection policy across Whitehall, the inquiry said. Chaired by Lord Williams of Mostyn QC, a Labour peer, the commission was set up by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and has spent two years taking evidence. A third plank...
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