Top UNICEF children's rights campaigner in UK - convicted for rape of boy, 12, Peter Newell, 77, also helped prepare UNICEF's Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Top UNICEF children's rights campaigner in UK - convicted for rape of boy, 12, Peter Newell, 77, also helped prepare UNICEF's Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (twitter.com)

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letsdothis1 7.1 years ago

Behind The Facade – Service Shenanigans

The person who was appointed to the top of the tree by Ted Heath’s Gov’t in 1970 was Barbara Kahan, a social worker who was the Home Office’s Deputy Chief Inspector of the Children’s Dept. At that time the Home Secretary was Reginald Maudling who ended up resigning after he was involved in a major scandal linked to large scale corruption in business dealings. When the remit for child care was taken over by the DHSS in 1971, Kahan transferred to that Dept, to work under Secretary of State Sir Keith Joseph.

Barbara Kahan was someone who was at the heart of a system that was rotten throughout her whole career and became a good deal more putrefied whilst she was at the highest level. Kahan came from a Labour Party, Methodist family and in 1939 went to Newnham College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge she re-started the University Labour Club, also worked for Richard Acland’s left-leaning Commonwealth Party and joined the Peace Pledge Union. After Cambridge, Kahan undertook a social science course at the LSE...........

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