Give Us A Royal Commission
Many thousands of children, their parents, and adults have all suffered serious injustices and continue to suffer because the child protection system is incapable of learning from its mistakes and is incapable of carrying out the necessary reforms. Each crisis has simply resulted in more legislation to boost the powers of child protection system, and very rarely have the voices of consumers been heard.....
Of most concern are the `theories' of child abuse which can be introduced with no scientific basis and no system of verification or validation by a National Validation body, even though the last 20 years have seen horrendous harm caused to children and families by such junk science as the Anal Dilatation Test (Cleveland), Repressed Memory Syndrome (widespread across the U.K. over many years), Satanic Ritual Abuse (Orkneys, Notttingham, Rochdale, and most recently in the Isle of Lewis), Shaken Baby Syndrome, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Fabricated and Induced Illness in Children, Brittle Bone Disease (in this case denial of its existence in infants)