Published in 1998, The Great Children’s Home Panic by Richard Webster was the first book to raise serious questions about a kind of police operation which has used up hundreds of millions of pounds of public money and resulted in allegations being trawled by the police against thousands of former care workers and teachers. This book is a must for all those who are concerned about miscarriages of justice and of police investigative methods which have themselves evolved in response to a number of highly dangerous developments in the law.