Jimmy Savile Sexual Abuse Allegations
From the 1970s onwards, the TV presenter and disc jockey Jimmy Savile undertook voluntary work at the hospital, raised funds for it, and was allocated his own room there. In August 1988, he was appointed by junior health minister Edwina Currie to chair an interim task force overseeing the management of the hospital, following the suspension of its board. After the ITV1 documentary Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile was broadcast in October 2012, allegations of sexual abuse by Savile at the hospital, and elsewhere, were made by former patients and staff. It was reported that the civil servant who proposed Savile's appointment at Broadmoor was investigated by police and prevented from working with children. The Department of Health announced that a former practising barrister, Kate Lampard, would chair and oversee the Department's investigations into Savile's activities at Broadmoor and at other hospitals and facilities in England.
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