Gordon Brown Tells Sex Abuse Inquiry That Child Migrants Should Be Compensated for ‘trafficking’

By Sean O’Neill
The Times
July 20, 2017

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gordon-brown-tells-sex-abuse-inquiry-that-child-migrants-should-be-compensated-for-trafficking-s02z7hd2q

Former prime minister Gordon Brown arrives at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in London to give evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Britain should establish a compensation scheme for surviving child migrants who were taken from their families, deported to former colonies and suffered sexual abuse, Gordon Brown told a public inquiry today.

The former Labour prime minister said sending children to farm schools and austere institutions overseas was “a government-enforced form of human trafficking”.

Mr Brown told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) that an official apology he made on behalf of the government to former child migrants in 2010 only dealt with some of the issues. More evidence had emerged about the scale of sexual abuse of children and the failure of Whitehall to address the problem, he said.

Mr Brown said the issue was even larger than the Jimmy Savile scandal, in…