Abuse in childhood is most evident in the internal life of the adult. Many of us went into the care system simply to be cared for only to find ourselves stuck in a kafkaesque nightmare at Wood End. Read more [...]
Yesterday a story broke about police enquiries into Woodend Assessment centre in The Leigh Reporter. Mysteriously the story has now been taken down. But it's in The Daily Mail. Is it a coincidence Read more [...]
The scandal tearing through Britain about missing home office files on alleged child abuse rankles. It's happening to me. Now NSPCC wants to make covering up chlid abuse, by hiding files, a crime. Read more [...]
It's recorded in Hansard. On 2 July 2013 in The House of Lords at The Houses of Parliament in the Palace of Westminster (pic) Lord Smith of Leigh said . "Although I did not realise it at the Read more [...]
I received a message that began “I’m shaking as I type all this as I haven't ever discussed with anyone else before.” He wrote his phone number and I called. Immediately. “Do you remember Mr Read more [...]
It’s national care leavers week and the article on the guardian’s website deliberately tells my leaving care story without trying to couch it in statistics or theory as to how it could have been done Read more [...]
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Cont…) Before entering wood end I bought a book about Bob Marley called Catch a Fire. I read it over and over again. The music led me to his lyrics and in particular The Survival album which seemed Read more [...]
Today I put the finishing touches to a documentary on Bob Marley called One Love. It’ll be broadcast on BBC world service radio on May 13th the day before his birthday. The producer, Dilly Barlow, Read more [...]
After the starter the lights dimmed and Chris Evans bounced onto the centre stage like the announcer at a boxing ring “Ladies and Gentlemen" the awards began. Read more [...]