A group of care workers and teachers named in the Waterhouse report on child abuse are planning an appeal to have their names removed from the 900-page official report.

They claim their lives and careers have been blighted by being mentioned adversely in the report when they have not been convicted of any offence.

A group of more than 30 are behind the move and have already obtained legal advice that they can ask the European Court of Human Rights to intervene.

Many of them worked alongside convicted paedophile Peter Howarth, who died in prison.

They were employed at the now closed Bryn Estyn home at Wrexham.

'Grossly unfair'

Many were named in the Waterhouse report, and some are now banned from working with children - even though they have never been convicted of any offence.

A spokesman for the group stressed they had no objection to convicted abusers being named but said it was considered grossly unfair that innocent people should have their lives blighted.

The long north Wales tribunal highlighted instances of child abuse in children's homes.

It resulted in a series of recommendations from Sir Ronald Waterhouse to protect young people in care from abuse.