Normally, society veers towards one end of this spectrum - for example, in the 1980s with the Children Act, society adopted a welfare model which then changed in the '90s with joy riding on northern estates and the tragic death of James Bulger. At present when it comes to children, there are two narratives that are currently playing out in our society.
The first is the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse which was established on the 12 March 2015 following increasing reports of child sexual abuse in a number of institutions including the BBC, NHS, children's homes and schools. There had also been a number of failures within the police to investigate allegations of child sexual abuse and failures within the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute these allegations.
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