It is a controversial and highly sensitive topic, but post Operation Yewtree which was prompted by allegations of child sex abuse involving Jimmy Savile, the media have been very good about highlighting this phenomenon and helping to expose it.
The latest in a series of sex abuse scandals, it now appears that schools run by the Roman Catholic Salesian Order in England and Scotland are now under scrutiny, with several former pupils, dating as far back as the 1950s, reaching out to the police to alert them of child sex abuse incidents they suffered at these schools.
The Met police Child Abuse Investigation Command is now looking into the allegations through what was until now, a covert investigation. The results so far indicate that at least 30 victims have come forward and 20 priests and teachers are also involved.
The investigation was launched in large part due to a now retired Met officer, Graham Wilmer, who was himself abused at one of the schools and has been campaigning for an investigation for decades. Graham runs The Lantern Project, which was set up to offer support to survivors of sexual abuse.
This afternoon Graham told us:
“The Metropolitan Police Child Abuse Command are investigating widespread sexual abuse of Children who attended Salesian Catholic schools in the UK over the past 50 years. A significant number of victims have already come forward to the police since the investigation began two months ago. Anyone who would like to talk to the police should ring 101, or contact me at the Lantern Project, and I will pass your details to the police for you.”
We’re glad to see that momentum is building in the often neglected area of child sexual abuse and we’re grateful to Graham for sharing this information with us.
Researching Reform 
The worst possible abuse in the UK is usually to be found in “care homes”.Hence no fewer than 10,000 children are “missing” from so called “care”.
Joint Inquiry into Children Who Go Missing from Care
Extract (point 9):
In June 2012, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Runaway and Missing Children and Adults and the APPG for Looked-after Children and Care Leavers published the report of their joint inquiry into children who go missing from care.
The report argued that the Government was under-reporting the number of children going missing from care. While the official figure for 2011 was 930, the report argues that, according to police data, an estimated 10,000 individual children went missing. The report cited that this high number was symptomatic of a care system which was far from being fit for purpose and in need of an urgent rethink.
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