When 'Care' Seems Almost a Blasphemy

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COMMENT HOW easy it is in this civilised age to look back with moral superiority at the appalling behaviour of our forebears, who in the last century ruined countless young lives by obliging children to labour in mines or clean the chimneys of the rich.

How sobering to contemplate what future generations may make of the way childhood is still being blighted today.

This week, Britain stared into the face of real evil. For years, hundreds of children in North Wales were systematically abused and tortured, their cries for help ignored. And there could be worse to come. As the Mail revealed yesterday, investigations originating in Lambeth have uncovered evidence of a …