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'''Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers''', which usually uses the [[acronym]] '''F.A.C.T.''', is a [[voluntary organisation]] set up in the [[United Kingdom]] to support carers, teachers, and other professionals who have been [[False accusations|falsely accused]] and/or wrongly convicted of abuse or misconduct; and to campaign for improvements in investigative practice and for reform of the [[criminal justice system]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_8498000/8498722.stm  BBC Panorama, ''Vetting and Barring scheme'', 8 February 2010]. Accessed 8 November 2012</ref><ref>[https://factuk.org/about-us/what-we-do/ F.A.C.T.: What We Do].  Accessed 3 October 2017</ref>
The organisation developed from support groups for those accused of abusing children in the residential care system.  The first group was set up in [[North Wales]] in 1992, to support those accused of abuse as part of the [[North Wales child abuse scandal]].  F.A.C.T. itself was set up in late 1999, following allegations of abuse made across [[North West England]], notably at the St George's School in [[Formby]], [[Merseyside]], where one of those accused and later cleared of all charges was football manager [[Dave Jones (footballer born 1956)|Dave Jones]].<ref name=origins>[http://www.factuk.org/about-us/our-origins/ F.A.C.T.: Our Origins].  Accessed 8 November 2012</ref><ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20040303223726/http://www.richardwebster.net/print/xfact.htm  Richard Webster, ''FACT: the origins of a campaign'', 2004]}}</ref>   Several other local groups later merged with it to form a national organisation.<ref name=origins/>
F.A.C.T. has submitted evidence to several inquiries into child abuse and the criminal justice system.<ref>[https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmhaff/1635/1635we04.htm  F.A.C.T. memorandum submitted to Select Committee on Home Affairs, 2 September 2006]</ref>  In 2005, [[Wrexham County Borough Council|Wrexham Council]] refused permission for a conference, arranged by F.A.C.T. and at which cultural historian [[Richard Webster (British author)|Richard Webster]] was to have been the main speaker, to be held at the former Bryn Estyn children's home.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/4552643.stm  BBC News, ''Abuse group banned from meeting'', 16 May 2005].  Accessed 7 November 2012</ref>  In November 2012 the organisation criticised what it called "false allegations and wrongful convictions" in relation to the North Wales child abuse scandal.<ref>[http://www.factuk.org/witchhunt-claims-against-bryn-estyn-false-say-care-workers/  F.A.C.T., ''"Witchhunt" claims against Bryn Estyn false, say care workers'', 7 November 2012].  Accessed 8 November 2012</ref>
==See also==
*[[Presumption of guilt]]
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