Chosen is a piece-to-camera, spoken-word documentary about three boys abused at a prep school, which was won a BAFTA award the following year. The former headmaster at the school from 1959 to 1970 has been convicted of child abuse during the timeline discussed in the film. The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg isn’t well liked…
In English law, sentencing guidelines were changed last week by the Crown Prosecution Service to increase minimum sentences for rape and sexual assaults, raising the tariff to start at 15 years and with other factors taken into account. Despite this change, Ian Watkins was subject to the law in Wales. What connects both countries is…
The ThinkUKnow campaign promoting online safety has run since 2007, but now that the National Crime Agency has taken over from SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency), from late October 2013, the address has changed. You can now find the resource for children and parents here in its linkup with the Child Exploitation and Online Prevention Centre (CEOP).
Due to the Phillipines Typhoon which moved on the world news agenda, the record breaking total for Britain’s more than 80 year old Children In Need telethon might have been missed, but once late donations have been counted, we’re sure the total raised for Children’s charities could reach UKP 31.5million from its present UKP 31,124,896 (USD 51,020,509.78)*. The…
It’s top of the general list of links for the day, in the 3rd December edition of The Daily Mail in the UK, a woman recounts her experience of surviving and taking an abusive teacher to court. The link is here for when it moves off the links list later this week. – Ken
(ed. note- Survivors have a long history of spending so much time surviving childhood that they never really learn how to be adults. Ken’s review of this book, which provides financial advice, can therefore be seen as an attempt to bridge that skills gap.) They call it retail therapy but it’s all too easy to…
