Kay Mason Billig, leader of Norfolk County Council, made the remarks after lawyers representing 43 former residents of the Small School at the Red House, in Buxton, began legal proceedings against the authority.

The Red House at Buxton, pictured in 2002 (Image: Archant)

They say they were raped, molested, pinned to the floor and beaten at the school, run by the Tvind School Cooperative of Denmark, in the 1980s and 1990s.

During that........

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