Abstract
In Northern Ireland there are unacceptable high levels of all forms of abuse and little real investment or political will in pre-devolutional context to tackle the causes behind it. In relation to sexual abuse in 2000/2001 (Personal Social Services and Related Statistics DHSSPS) over 700 sexual offences were reported to the police. Putting it another way, in any average week in Northern Ireland 2 children will be raped and a further 10 indecently assaulted. In human terms it is a truly staggering figure. To comprehensively tackle the structural causes of sex abuse of children in Northern Ireland, it is necessary to bring about a cultural change at a number of different levels in our society. This was the reason the NSPCC in 1999 launched its Full Stop Campaign , one of its key components being to bring about government and public change through high profile campaigns including those in the media.
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