The Church of England Redress Scheme is a national programme for people who have experienced abuse connected to the Church.

To safeguard children, agencies must work together to provide stability, reliability and hope. However, this doesn’t always happen. For too many children who enter care, the systems designed to protect them instead add to their fears that they are unlovable and that no-one cares.

Survivors of Medomsley Detention Centre continue to seek full acknowledgement of the abuse they suffered. Learn how decades of trauma, investigations and compensation efforts have shaped the ongoing fight for truth and justice.

David Greenwood, Head of Switalskis Child Abuse Compensation department, represents a woman who, as a pupil at St Bede’s School in Redhill in 1984, was subjected to repeated sexual abuse by David Tudor.

Seven men have been charged with more than 40 offences following a major investigation into child sexual exploitation involving 11 victims in Bristol.

Sageer Hussain, previously described as the ringleader of a Rotherham grooming gang, has been given an additional three-year prison sentence for raping a 13-year-old girl between 2000 and 2002.

The Government issued (on 12 November 2025) a long-awaited apology to the men who suffered systemic abuse at Medomsley Detention Centre in County Durham.

David Greenwood, Head of Abuse at Switalskis, exposes the shocking abuse in UK detention centres and questions how it was allowed to persist.