The past on trial: special report

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.

Further members of staff could be following former director-general George Entwistle out of the doors of the BBC in the wake of the Newsnight scandal, BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten says.

A man in his 70s is arrested as a part of a police investigation into allegations that Jimmy Savile sexually abused children.

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.

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.

From the initial investigation into north Wales child abuse in 1991 to the Waterhouse inquiry in 2000, Sian Griffiths has collated details of every allegation and document surrounding the scandal.

After revelations about Jimmy Savile, north Wales abuse and Hillsborough, Channel 4 News looks at how our institutions and processes are failing the victims of national tragedy and scandal.

Keith Gregory, who was a teenage resident at the Bryn Estyn institution at the centre of north Wales abuse claims, returns with Ciaran Jenkins. But boys were abused at care homes across north Wales.

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

The child protection system in England requires a complete overhaul because it is failing vulnerable teenagers, an investigation by a group of MPs warns.

A former resident of the Wrexham care home at the centre of abuse allegations tells Channel 4 News that he saw evidence of abuse, and remembers seeing Sir Peter Morrison at the care home five times.

The National Crime Agency chief will lead a new investigation into child abuse claims in north Wales linked to a senior Tory politician, says Theresa May.