Opening the long-awaited inquiry into child sexual abuse, Judge Lowell Goddard pledges that “no matter how powerful”, no-one will be allowed to obstruct inquiries.
More than 200 people have come forward with allegations of historic abuse in North Wales care homes, police say – identifying nearly 100 alleged offenders.
A report into failings at council-run children’s homes in north Wales, which was suppressed for almost 20 years, is finally published.
Police find “significant evidence of systemic and serious sexual and physical abuse of children” at north Wales care homes, including 140 allegations of offences against seven to 19 year olds.
Jon Snow talks to Cllr Malcolm King, who started the first investigations into abuse at North Wales care homes when he was chair of Clwyd County Council social services committee.
A month since the scandal of historic child abuse in north Wales cost the job of BBC director general George Entwistle, Ciaran Jenkins looks at the unanswered questions that remain.
Amid claims, denials, legal threats and apologies, one fact remains: we still do not know the truth about children abused in north Wales. Paraic O’Brien anticipates where the two reviews will lead.
George Entwistle announces his resignation as BBC director-general, seven weeks after moving into the post, after a Newsnight report which wrongly implicated a senior Tory politician in child abuse.
A BBC report which wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse should never have been broadcast, the corporation’s director general says.
Ex-Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine releases a statement saying allegations linking him to child abuse are “wholly false”. Former care home resident Steve Messham apologises, citing mistaken identity.
The Thatcher-era Conservative aide linked to sex abuse allegations by a care home resident has fallen victim to mistaken identity, new evidence suggests.
Labour MP Ann Clwyd tells Channel 4 News that, despite the retraction of one allegation by a victim of the north Wales care home abuse scandal, the new police investigations are appropriate.
As news about injustice and alleged establishment cover-ups from the 1970s and 1980s continue to emerge, were the media at fault for not investigating rumours and how has reporting changed since then?
Hardly a month goes by before someone asks for another public inquiry. Channel 4 News asks: what’s the point?
Journalist and feminist Rosie Boycott discusses the horror of looking back on decades of uncovered scandal as Channel 4 News puts the past on trial. #pastontrial