{"id":8415,"date":"2018-03-06T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:24:43","slug":"gordon-lynchs-research-informs-government-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/03\/06\/gordon-lynchs-research-informs-government-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Lynch\u2019s research informs Government report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert witness evidence by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/lynch.html\">Gordon Lynch<\/a>, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, has been extensively cited in the recent Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report on the sexual abuse of former British child migrants.<\/p>\n<p>In recommending that the UK Government set up a national compensation scheme for former child migrants, the Inquiry said that it had been persuaded by evidence from Professor Lynch, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/history\/about-us\/people\/Stephen-Constantine\">Professor Stephen Constantine<\/a>\u00a0 from Lancaster University, that the UK Government had allowed the \u2018high politics\u2019 of maintaining strategic links with the Australian Government to over-ride its duty of care to British child migrants.<\/p>\n<p>The report also drew widely on evidence from Professors Lynch and Constantine to make criticisms of a number of voluntary organisations involved in child migration work which has already led to further apologies from some of these organisations.<\/p>\n<p>The Report received wide national media coverage including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/mar\/01\/inquiry-urges-payouts-for-victims-of-postwar-uk-child-migration-scheme\">this article in <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown summary of the findings may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/17183\/profound-organisational-failures-in-the-child-migration-schemes\">www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/17183\/profound-organisational-failures-in-the-child-migration-schemes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert witness evidence by Gordon Lynch, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology in the Department of Religious Studies, has been extensively cited in the recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/03\/06\/gordon-lynchs-research-informs-government-report\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8426,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions\/8426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}