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Doublespeak and Frontline
On 31st January 2013, I attended a promotion meeting for Frontline – a charity providing social work education. By then I had been a senior social work lecturer for over 10 years, was qualified in...
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‘Goodbye’ Goddard though I never said ‘Hello’
(East Midlands Survivors logo) Following the very sudden, unexpected and unexplained resignation of Justice Lowell Goddard as Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) , I have...
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Community work – protecting children
Some more recently qualified social workers are gaining a strong voice on social media and even in the mainstream press with all kinds of comment about the professional role of social work. In this...
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Child victims of neuroscience?
In 2002, Prince Charles first gave Camila Batmanghelidjh, CEO of the former charity Kids Company, the idea of considering the impact of child abuse on children’s brain development. He presented her...
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Survivors in prison – IICSA ‘Truth’ Project may put them at risk
A recent initiative for the so called ‘Truth’ Project to ask prisoners to share their experiences of child sexual abuse with facilitators from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)...
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Sandy Marks: In 2014 I asked for a dialogue
This letter was emailed in 2014 to Sandy Marks, former Chair of Islington Social Services Committee and Mayor, via the Head of Services and Consultancy of Disability Action in Islington who had...
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Islington children: Poems 1990
I wrote these poems in 1990 at the height of my investigations into the child abuse scandal. I am not a poet – that will be obvious. I wrote many I cannot include but they were my way of expressing how...
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The horrors of Gisburne House
Gisburne House was built in Watford, Hertfordshire in 1912 as an industrial school for girls. The photo above is from that era and the other photo is from a World in Action (1977) programme . In...
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Social work bloggers and tweeters
The numbers of social work bloggers and tweeters are increasing daily. This is both positive and negative. On the one hand there are some who promote ideologies and views which are inconsistent with...
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Parallel Universes; social workers and abused children
On the 28th September at an Islington Council Executive meeting, I received an apology from Islington Council Leader, Richard Watts. I was deeply moved by this because, after 27 years of campaigning,...
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