Dozens of people have contacted the BBC about abuse they suffered as children after four ex-footballers spoke out on the Victoria Derbyshire Programme.
This fact is so important. As a survivor, you are not the only one. The statistics do not lie, there are other survivors all around us. Here are just a few of the stories of abuse in youth sports in the UK.
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“When a person experiences a traumatic event such as rape, abuse, neglect, or domestic violence, there is a strong chance, especially if these things are experienced as a child, that negative messages will worm their way into our subconscious. What are these messages and who is sending them? Sometimes it is people around us, sometimes,…
I’m a little late seeing this article from the IWF, but I was so, so happy to see what their number 1 thing to do was: 1. Talk about online safety with your children, as soon as they have access to internet connected devices. Don’t send them off into the online world without some education….
In the UK we had a system known as the Criminal Records Bureau, or CRB, for ensuring that adults working with children and vulnerable adults neither possess a criminal record nor had they changed their names to avoid disclosure to prospective employers. This system was due to be replaced by a much wider-reaching checking system…
Yes it should, I don’t know how many studies we need, or why we even need studies to show us, that getting to a mental health condition early is always better than later! The message I try to leave with teens is that they are not alone. Millions of people around the world live with…
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