The Metropolitan Police Service has abandoned its policy of automatically believing victims of sexual abuse, according to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick. Speaking to The Times , Ms Dick said that she had “rethought” the...
Child Abuse in Drama and Theatre Schools Blog
Sexual harassment and bullying are “ingrained into the theatre culture” according to a new study carried out by The Stage . A poll of theatre professionals and students shows 43% have experiencing bullying and 31% have been sexually harassed...
The BBC recently covered a deeply disturbing story regarding peer-on-peer sexual abuse by school age children. According to the NSPCC, cases like this involving not only secondary aged children, but also primary schoolers, happen, “thousands...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recently released guidance to be considered by all practitioners working with children and young people under the age of 18, including social workers, healthcare professionals and lead...
It’s not OK. The law is crystal clear on this issue. Under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 , any sexual relationship between someone who is in a position of trust, such as a teacher and a person to whom that trust extends, is criminal [1] . ...
For people who have suffered sexual abuse, especially as a child , it may take years before they have the courage to tell the police about their ordeal. And in the time that passes, their abuser may have died. The classic example of this is in...
Jimmy Saville, Rochdale, Operation Pallial. These names and many more have become familiar to all of us who read the papers, but for the survivors of abuse which took place in children’s care homes, hearing these names can bring back horrific,...