Local MP on Cleveland child abuse cases and standing down from front bench

Title

Local MP on Cleveland child abuse cases and standing down from front bench

Genre

Interview

TX Date

9 Jul 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:04:45

Description

Interview with Stuart Bell local MP, on the Cleveland child abuse scandal, where 121 cases of suspected child sexual abuse were (possibly mis-) diagnosed by Dr Marietta Higgs and Dr Geoffrey Wyatt, paediatricians at the Middlesbrough General Hospital. He has had to give up his job as NI spokesman as the case took over his working life and on form he would like to see the inquiry taking. Reporter not identified. In two parts.

Contributors

Stuart Bell

Keywords

Northern Ireland; Health services; Social services; Child abuse; Children in care; Parents; Sexual abuse; Teeside; Middlesbrough; Cleveland; Marietta Higgs; Geoffrey Wyatt; Middlesbrough General Hospital; Cleveland child abuse scandal (1987)

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