Paedophile advised on Home Office children's homes report

Peter Righton, founder of Paedophile Information Exchange, now at centre of historical abuse inquiry

 The Home Office in Marsham Street, London
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A teacher who was forced to leave a job due to complaints of child abuse and went on to campaign on behalf of paedophiles helped write a Home Office report on the residential child care system in 1970, it has emerged.

Peter Righton, who died in 2007, has emerged as the figure at the centre of an inquiry into historical child abuse, launched by the government last month.

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