The report findings are based on 19 days of public hearings held last summer. It is one of three investigations by the inquiry into the response by local authorities to allegations of child sexual abuse, alongside Rochdale and Nottinghamshire.
News correspondent AliFortescue. Children in the care of Lambeth Council were subjected to "levels of cruelty and sexual abuse that are hard to comprehend", an inquiry into historical child abuse has found. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse's report said the council exposed children to situations where they were at risk of sexual abuse and knowingly kept staff who were a threat to children.
It found that by June , Lambeth Council had received complaints from former residents at three of the homes, but only one senior employee had been disciplined in over 40 years.
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. One of the council's biggest care homes, Shirley Oaks, received allegations of abuse against staff members or people linked to the home. Up to children lived at the home in Croydon until its closure in The report described Shirley Oaks and South Vale homes as "brutal places where violence and sexual assault were allowed to flourish".
At Angell Road, children - including those under the age of five - were systematically exposed to sexual abuse, the inquiry found.
