Forced migration was UK's worst child abuse scandal, says Brown

Former PM says that now scale of abuse of those sent to Australia and Canada up to 1970s is clearer, compensation is needed

The former prime minister Gordon Brown has described the forced migration of children as a bigger sex abuse scandal than that perpetrated by Jimmy Savile.

Giving evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Brown said the mass transportation of 130,000 British children overseas amounted to “government-enforced trafficking”.

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