A look back at the creation of 'Gillick Competency' and how it paved the way for child sexual exploitation.

Group-based CSEA remains an ongoing issue, but significant knowledge gaps persist, particularly regarding perpetrator characteristics and the evolution of grooming techniques in an increasingly digital world.

Clarifying terminology is not merely semantic: it has direct implications for safeguarding practice, charging decisions, victim identification and the development of effective policy responses.

How we perceive, speak and even think about certain topics in the public square has been ‘taught’ and gatekept by the New Academics in so many ways, explicit and implicit, and for so long, that it is no wonder that a generation of politicians, counsellors, police, social workers, lawyers, judges, teachers and other state and private sector workers alike became deniers, apologists, and in some cases even facilitators of this crime against humanity.