First Group of Labour Councillors – Peter Mandelson’s tenure, during which children in the ‘care’ of Lambeth Council children’s homes were being abused ‘on an industrial scale’. We have no information as to how many or which ones were active child molesters:
- councillor Dorothy Ayers
- councillor Janet Boateng (n.b elected in May 1982, becoming Chair of the Social Services Committee, so she joined Lambeth Council just as Mandelson left it. The social services committee reportedly had overall responsibility for the running of Lambeth’s children’s homes.)
- councillor Bill Bowring
- councilor John Boyle
- councillor Mike Bright
- councillor Christopher Brooks
- councillor Stephen Bubb
- councillor Brinley ‘Bryn’ Davies
- councillor Peter Dean
- councillor Sylvia Dimmick
- councillor Michael Drake
- councillor Ian Grant
- councillor Hugh Griffiths
- councillor William Hall
- councillor Leonard Hammond
- councillor Les Hammond (Chair of the Social Services Committee 1978-1981)
- councillor Elsie Horstead
- councillor Dennis Houghting
- councillor Sylvia Ingerson
- councillor Michael Jeram
- councillor Michael Johnson
- councillor Ted Knight (Council Leader 1978-1986)
- councillor Peter Lane (resigned c.1981)
- councillor Peter Lansley
- councillor Peter Mandelson (elected in a by-election on December 6 1979)
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