Hitting your partner is wrong.
Hitting your child is wrong.
Hitting your parent, friend or mate — violence doesn’t educate.

Harm is harm in any space,
in public view or hidden place.
Assault is crime — no blurred line there; abuse is abuse everywhere.

And hitting children “for discipline”won’t teach respect or strength within. How can we build a kinder nation when violence forms our education?

If we want peace in how we live,
we must show the calm we hope to give. Kids learn fast from what we do — so lead with care; they’re watching you.

North or South; East or West,
we speak the truth and set it straight: violence must be denied its space. No age or gender, class or race makes harm acceptable. It has no place.

These #16DaysOfActivism
shine a light on failing systems.
Behind closed doors, the cycle stays — survivors share, relive the pain, then face dismissal once again.

We’re urged to speak and find our voice, to reach for help as the “right choice.” Yet cuts to specialist support mean this:
long waits, closed doors, and hope dismissed.

Harm rarely comes as just one layer — it stacks at home, at school — a silent player.
Abuse from strangers, harm from kin, bullying for being “different” — condemned again.

Some face neglect, some face it all, in classrooms, homes – across every hall. And when they speak, they’re told they’re lying; professionals doubting, families denying.

Institutions guard their name and face, while child protection loses place.

New forms of harm keep coming to light — online abuse and organised crime. Yet language shifts the gaze away from where most harm still happens today: behind closed doors, in family homes, where countless children face harm alone.

Serious Case Reviews say the same — failed foundations feed this pain. All abuse must be addressed —not just the latest headline stress. Systems chase the “shiny” case, while hidden harm stays in its place.

Twenty recommendations as a package — a blueprint built to stop the damage. But years of stalling and delay leave children harmed in the very same way.

We can’t rebuild on fractured ground — fix the foundations or they’ll fall down. No culture, faith, ethnicity or class — no sex or status gives harm a pass.

Adults still live with wounds unhealed, and cycles turn when truth’s concealed. Untreated trauma echoes wide — new generations caught inside.
The cost to health and life is real,
a strain no system yet can heal.

IICSA’s Rec 4 made this clear:
we need awareness, year on year — a culture brave enough to face
the harm still hidden in every place.

So if you see it — don’t distort it.
If you hear it — then report it.
Stand with courage — don’t abort it: #SeeItSayItSortIt.

Protection isn’t just polite; it’s duty, courage, strength, and fight. Stand firm for children day and night.

by Chris Tuck SoB 30.11.25

Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)