Some day’s…like today…. I wonder why I do the job I do. I am writing this at 10:30pm. I am exhausted and know that I have a full day ahead of me, let alone the weekend in Manchester coming up. It’s been an emotional week for various reasons and I have hit a lull today….

The next Sunday blog that comes out will probably be written and posted whilst I am on a train back from the Filia 2018 conference in Manchester. Who knows what that blog will be about, but I imagine it will be a blog of mixed emotions and about the weekend events. My segment is titled…

I have been here before. Many times. I have a 12-year-old girl sitting before me with tears running down her face, her sobs filling my room. I am not sure just yet why she is crying, we have not got there just yet, but I know she is about to tell me. A week ago,…

Right, lets just get down to it shall we. This blog is going to cause a stir, so we may as well get on with it. When this was announced, I had so many messages and posts asking me what I thought. 3 radio stations and a several News programmes asked me to give an…

A few weeks ago, I received an email from a lady called Natalie asking if I would speak on a panel around trafficking and exploitation. She explained that it was a dance production that outlined the impact of trafficking and exploitation on women . She said that it was being recognised that this is an…

I was interviewed by a journalist today. I wont name them as they are about to do their best to uncover why Gangs and Child sexual exploitation is not receiving the press coverage it deserves across Kent. I have been asked to do many interviews over the past few months and have tried to be…

So here is the thing, “Make her look younger-part 1” received a epic amount of views. I have received calls, emails and messages about the blog and its content. People have been shocked by what was said. I wrote “Make her look younger” a while ago and it was one of the most therapeutic things…

It was raining so everyone was cotching in the bottom of the block. About 15 of them, aged between 11 and 16, spliffs being passed round, music playing from someone’s speakers, everyone chatting. Suddenly the elder shouted down from the top floor of the 4-story high block of flats. He was in one of the…

Single Mums are to blame for gangs Just read that back again. Single mums are to blame for gangs. A direct quote from an ex-gang member, someone who should know better goes like this “I have seen children as young as 11 out way past midnight, yet the mothers and the community do not seem…

“It’s happening to my friends but not to me” CSE is often viewed as a dirty crime. By the perpetrator. By the professionals. By the public. And sadly, much of the time by the victims. Not always, you understand, but often. I think that once someone identifies as a survivor, they then stop viewing CSE…