‘Published on 20 Nov 2012
Care is about Davey, a teenager who suffers systematic sexual abuse while living in a council-run children’s home. Though Glenavon and the Welsh county of Caradog are fictitious, the roots of Prendiville’s story are not. We know this from the millions of words of testimony that have been aired in recent years by the now adult victims of institutionalised abuse. Once, Cleveland, Leicestershire and North Wales were just places. Today in some circumstances they are synonymous with the physical, sexual and emotional suffering of children in care. ‘
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Qn2n0fdeI
A Former Resident at Kesgrave Hall School Speaks Out – http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2007/11/11/the_kesgrave_hall_sex_scandal