Children's homes were 'supply line' for pedophiles, says ex-minister

Powerful people in the 1980s targeted children's homes that served as a "supply line" for paedophiles, a former health minister has claimed.
As a former child protection manager warned that a "powerful elite" of at least 20 prominent figures carried out the "worst form of abuse", the former health minister Lord Warner described the sexual abuse of children as a "power drive".
Warner, a health minister in 2003-07 who conducted an inquiry into child abuse in Birmingham in 1992, spoke out after the home secretary, Theresa May, announced a national inquiry into how the authorities may have ignored child abuse at Westminster. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/08/children-homes-supply-line-paedophiles-lord-warner
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