Child sexual abuse in the context of children’s homes and residential care
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2019
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Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
Abstract
The accounts in this report are from victims and survivors who came to the Truth Project between June 2016 and March 2019. The research was undertaken by members of the Inquiry’s Research Team between March and November 2019. The report describes the experiences of Truth Project participants who told us they were sexually abused in residential care contexts between the 1940s and 2000s, with the most recent case in our sample beginning in the early 2000s. The experiences of sexual abuse in residential care presented in this report do not necessarily relate to current-day experiences as the most recent case of sexual abuse included in this analysis occurred over a decade ago, and the majority of experiences shared occurred in the 1970s or earlier. Therefore, it is not possible to make any comparisons with current-day experiences in residential care contexts on the basis of Truth Project data. We recognise that the research findings included in this report do not reflect all experiences of sexual abuse in a residential care context. (Author Text)
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child abuse, research, long term effects, institutional abuse, International Resources, United Kingdom
Citation
Soares, Claire ; Ablett, Grace ; Mooney, Beth ; King, Sophia. (2019). Child sexual abuse in the context of children’s homes and residential care. London: Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.