Ebook: Secrets and Silence: Uncovering the Legacy of the Cleveland Child Sexual Abuse Case

When paediatricians in the English county of Cleveland identified evidence of rape in 121 children seen in hospital in 1987, they were discredited. Children were sent home and the public assured that there was no widespread problem of sexual abuse. Renowned journalist Beatrix Campbell gives profound new insights into Cleveland, the Child Support Agency in the UK and beyond, the current Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and current policy on child protection in the UK. Using interviews with the children and professionals in the case and a fresh scrutiny of documents in the National Archive, she provides an important must-read book for practitioners and anyone interested in this burning issue of our times.