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The Do Gooders – “Care By Order”

LWT documentary from 1979 on Gisburne House. “Nearly 8,000 children are injured by their parents every year. This is the first of six programmes in a series that investigates the world of social workers and looks at their efforts to deals with and prevent cases of child abuse.” The part on Gisburne House begins half way through.

(Warning – this video shows some of the children that were there at the time)

Sonia Poulton show ‘Wake Up’ 30th March 2026. Episode 197. Sonia rightly interrogates the possible appointment of Hodge as Chair of Ofcom. She provides an accurate analysis of Hodge’s role as Islington Council council leader when Liz Davies and David Cofie reported the child abuse scandal to her. . After her denial of the child abuse she later apologised for not having listened to the children and clamed she was misinformed by her officers. She has not said whether she then reported those officers to their regulatory bodies for breach of professional standards.

Sonia Poulton ‘Wake Up’ Monday 10th August 2026. Interview with Jacqueline Ali (ISN survivor) about her son Yusuf Ali (IISN survivor) who is unjustly in prison over 30 years on an IPP – Indeterminate sentence

A Kind of Hush

(from Spotlightonabuse.wordpress.com)

The morning after the broadcast of ‘Secret Life of a Paedophile’ in 1994, Richard Johnson, the author of the book A Kind of Hush, rang in to the Inside Story team to say that at 1.30 am he had received a phone call from ‘Mick’ (who the central character in A Kind of Hush is based on) to say that the documentary had vindicated him and everything he had told Richard about many years before. According to Richard Johnson the book was loosely based on a paedophile network that included Peter Righton, a Labour MP, a well known Labour politician, and a central figure allegedly named as a major paedophile in Islington children’s homes.

This information is based on written evidence seen at first hand by Peter McKelvie.