Article 6BWF0 King Charles urged to intervene over ‘insulting’ child sexual abuse payments

King Charles urged to intervene over ‘insulting’ child sexual abuse payments

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Patrick Butler Social policy editor
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Exclusive: Surviving victims of farm school' abuse will only receive 2,000 each from Prince's Trust, which took over liabilities of Fairbridge Society

King Charles has been urged to intervene after the Prince's Trust, the youth charity he founded, said it would pay compensation of just 2,000 each to child survivors of sexual abuse.

The settlement has been offered to hundreds of British children who were removed from poor working-class families or care homes by the UK government in the last century and sent to farm schools" in Australia and Canada for opportunity and education" and then suffered sexual abuse.

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