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'Few books have managed to get to the heart of a story of abuse as
thoroughly and accurately as Abuse of Trust.' - CHRISTIAN WOLMAR,
JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR 'An important and in-depth analysis' - DR LIZ
DAVIES, LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, UK For the first time in 18
years, the definitive account of one of Britain's worst child abuse
scandals is re-published - with a new chapter looking at the role
of the Labour MP Greville Janner. Frank Beck sexually and
physically abused more than 200 children while working as a
residential care home manager for Leicestershire County Council.
This book shows how he got away with it, after gulling social
workers and council managers. Hundreds of children in the care of
the local authority were damaged, and some tragically died. One is
suspected, now, of being murdered. Janner, a lawyer, backbencher
and influential figure in Labour, repeatedly avoided prosecution
for his involvement in the Leicestershire care scandal, despite
being named as an abuser during the criminal case against Beck. In
an epilogue to this new, enlarged edition of this acclaimed book on
the scandal, Paul Gosling deals with Janner's dominance of the
local Labour Party, his influence within the wider parliamentary
party and the failed police investigations into him. Abuse of
Trust, first published in 1998, has long been viewed by social work
professionals as an important audit of this case. Gosling and the
BBC journalist Mark D'Arcy, his co-author, investigate how Beck and
his cronies came to rampage through children's homes in
Leicestershire for more than a decade.
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