UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News
As the long-awaited child sex abuse inquiry officially opens, Sky News asked people with a close interest in the process to tell us what they want it to achieve.
Siobhan Pyburn – Abuse survivor and founder of Young Survivor Network
I feel that the inquiry needs to focus on practical solutions rather than theoretical considerations, as all we seem to have right now are ‘guidelines’ and ‘protocols’ which don’t actually need to be followed by organisations that work with children as a matter of legal obligation.
Sadly, recent scandals have demonstrated that colleagues of perpetrators are not above turning the blind eye to protect their own interests; the bottom line is, no one seems to want to face the scale and severity of the problem.
As a brand new organisation, we’ve been struggling both to secure funding and reach out to young survivors for whom the experience is relatively recent.
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