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Appropriately Exposing Evil: The IICSA Inquiry on Child Abuse in Organised Networks

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The launch of a police investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse against media personality Jimmy Saville in 2012 was perhaps the pivotal point in our society really taking this issue seriously. In the years before that a growing number of allegations against media stars, sports personalities, prominent politicians, civil servants, and even church leaders …

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When Religious Leaders Fall

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What do we do when a highly regarded and much loved spiritual leader falls? Specifically, when they are shown to have used their power and position to sexually, physically or spiritually abuse children and young people, men and women. This is a major issue for faith groups learning to handle allegations of abuse. This weekend …

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The Church’s Darkest Secret

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Over the past two evenings BBC2 has broadcast a documentary on the sexual exploitation of young men by a senior church leader and a wider circle of priests. “Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret” tells how from the 1970s through until at least the 1990s a number of young men were sexually abused by Bishop Peter …

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FACES in Luton: Creating a constructive approach to challenging Child Sexual Exploitation in all its forms

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Recently my friend and colleague Rehana Faisal in a post ‘Name it. Shame it. Protect the children’ strongly critiqued the approach taken by Qulliam Foundation’s report “Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation: Dissecting “Grooming Gangs”, and especially the recent attempts at defence of that report by the organisation’s chair, Maajid Nawaz. She joins a growing number who take …

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