TOM’S INITIATIVE

Tom, Mark, and Alastair who tell their story in Chosen are working together with others from the same school to ensure that existing Child Protection apparatus works properly, is known and understood. They are also pressing for it to be a legal duty to report alleged abuse to the Local Authority Designated Officer.

You can find out more about their work

		If you don't sit down with the headmaster and ask some very direct questions, you are risking your child's welfare." Tom
		"If I was the parent of a child at a school where one of the teachers had been put behind bars for abusing children, I would want to know." Alastair
		"From that point onward I changed. I became somebody at 11 who completely split off and I had a secret life. I suddenly had big secrets." Mark