An apology from Health

Friday 26th March 2010, 2:59PM GMT.

Health Minister Anne Pryke

HEALTH Minister Anne Pryke has apologised to children who suffered years of abuse while social services, schools, courts and police failed to protect them.

But in a brief statement issued this morning, Deputy Pryke said that she could not answer questions about the failings revealed by the damning serious case review.

On behalf of colleagues Education Minister James Reed and Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand, she said that the need to protect the family’s privacy and ensure that any civil action taken on behalf of the children was not prejudiced meant that she could not talk about the findings of the review.

The Deputy said that the review was ‘not about apportioning blame’ but about learning lessons and improving services – a process that she said was already going on, with more money going into social services and improved practice and training.

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