[That this House, in the light of recent reports of child sexual abuse issuing from Cleveland and elsewhere, recalls with acute concern the claims registered by Incest Crisis Line, supported by many other agencies both statutory and voluntary, that children subjected to sexual abuse are the source of 90 per cent.
Section 64 grants to voluntary organisations Organisation 1987–88 Grant 1988–89 Grant Access Committee (England) 91,000 91,000 Action on Smoking and Health 200,000 150,000 Adfam 13,579 0 Advance 33,500 33,000 Advocacy Alliance 15,000 11,250 Age Concern 252,000 252,000 Age Exchange Theatre Company 2,000 0 Aid For Children With Tracheostomies 5,000 0 Alcohol Concern 500,000 500,000 Alcohol Concern 20,000 0 Alzheimers Disease Association 110,000 0 Anorexic Family Aid 27,000 29,000 Anthony Nolan Fund 11,000 0 Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus 26,000 35,000 Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus 6,000 7,000 Association of Breastfeeding Mothers 4,500 0 Association of Carers 31,667 0 Association of Professions for Mentally Handicapped 5,000 0 Association of Residential Communities 4,000 0 Association to Combat Huntington's Chorea 20,000 20,000 Asthma Society 10,000 10,000 120 Organisation 1987–88 Grant 1988–89 Grant Babylife Support Systems 8,000 8,000 Bacup 10,000 10,000 Breakthrough Trust 35,000 35,000 Breast Care and Mastectomy Association of Great Britain 15,000 15,000 Bridge 0 260,000 British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering 276,000 0 British Association of Services to the Elderly 12,000 12,000 British Association for Immediate Care 12,500 10,000 British Association of the Hard of Hearing 30,000 0 British Association of the Hard of Hearing 20,000 0 British Council of Organisations of Disabled People 4,500 0 British Deaf Association 20,000 0 British Fluoridation Society 20,000 0 British Institute of Industrial Therapy 17,000 25,000 British Institute of Mental Handicap 35,000 35,000 British Kidney Patient Association 35,000 35,000 British Organ Donor Society 5,000 5,000 British Red Cross Society 10,000 10,000 Brook Advisory Centres 45,000 45,000 Campaign for Mentally Handicapped 16,800 16,800 Campaign for Mentally Handicapped 10,000 5,000 Cancer Line 10,000 10,000 Catholic Child Welfare Council 1,875 1,500 Catholic Marriage Advisory Council 40,000 40,000 Centre for Policy on Ageing 24,300 0 Centre on Environment for the Handicapped 40,000 38,500 Chest Heart and Stroke Association 13,000 23,000 Child Accident Prevention Trust 71,325 10,125 Child Accident Prevention Trust 0 118,000 Child Care 29,000 0 Child Care 26,000 0 Child Care 62,000 0 Child Poverty Action Group 17,000 17,000 Children's Legal Centre 38,000 38,000 Children's Society 15,000 0 Children's Society 20,000 0 Children's Society 10,000 10,000 Children's Society 60,000 20 Chinese Health Information Centre 15,000 30,000 Chinese Health Information Centre 12,505 0 Coeliac Society 14,000 0 Community Service Volunteers 2,500 7,452 Community Service Volunteers 37,650 48,000 Compassionate Friends 4,500 0 Contact 30,000 30,000 Contact A Family 28,000 20,000 Contact A Family 10,000 25,000 Cope 104,500 87,000 Coronary Prevention Group 40,000 0 Council for Advancement of Communication with Deaf People 40,000 0 Crossroads Care Attendant Schemes 75,000 0 Cruse 114,000 114,000 Cry-Sis 2,000 0 Cry-Sis 1,500 500 Debra 8,000 0 Demand 10,500 0 Dial UK 40,000 40,000 Disability Alliance 20,000 20,000 Disabled Living Foundation 3,800 0 Disabled Living Foundation 297,800 0 Disabled Income Group* 0 5,000 Disabled Income Group 17,000 0 Downs Syndrome Association 9,000 0 Dr. Barnardos 230,000 0 Dr. Barnardos 15,000 0 East Community Centre 17,476 0 Ethnic Study Group 8,000 67,000 Ethnic Study Group 11,000 7,000 Exploring Parenthood 9,000 9,000 121 Organisation 1987–88 Grant 1988–89 Grant Extend 20,000 0 Family Forum 32,400 41,500 Family Holiday Assocation 7,000 7,000 Family Planning Association 7,960 0 Family Planning Association 130,000 130,000 Family Planning Association 2,300 0 Family Policy Studies Centre 108,000 83,500 Family Rights Group 24,000 16,000 Family Service Units 160,000 160,000 Family Welfare Association 96,450 96,450 First Key 86,000 91,000 Forward 28,000 0 Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths 10,000 10,000 Friends for the Young Deaf 7,500 0 Gingerbread 78,000 78,000 Good Practices in Mental Health 65,000 0 Greater Manchester Council on Alcoholism 4,792 0 Headway 30,000 0 Herpes Association 5,000 5,000 Holiday Care Service 10,000 10,000 Home Farm Trust 10,000 0 Home Start Consultancy 30,000 0 Homes for Homeless People 45,800 48,000 Horticultural Therapy 50,000 52,000 Housing Campaign for Single Homeless 33,300 0 Hyde Park Community Action 5,146 0 Immunity 1,195 0 Immunity 1,805 0 In Touch 2,500 2,500 Incest Crisis Line 6,000 0 Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence 240,000 60,000 International Social Service 47,500 47,500 Invalids at Home Trust 1,500 0 Iris Fund 2,500 2,500 John Hunt Award Trust 1,500 0 Joint Committee on Mobility for the Disabled 1,000 0 La Leche League of Great Britain 6,500 0 London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard 3,400 0 London Lighthouse 1,250,000 0 London Lighthouse 100,000 0 L'Arche Ltd. 10,500 0 Marie Curie Memorial Foundation 10,000 10,000 Marriage Research Centre 800 0 Marriage Research Centre 5,000 0 Maternity Alliance 37,000 37,000 McIntyre Schools (Shipton) 12,000 2,000 Medical Commission on Accident Prevention 6,000 0 MENCAP 220,000 220,000 MENCAP 138 0 Mental After Care Association 40,000 0 Mental Health Film Council 26,000 0 Mental Health Foundation 27,000 27,000 Mildway Mission Hospital 29,000 0 Mildway Mission Hospital 171,000 0 Miscarriage Association 2,000 0 Mobility Information Service 5,000 5,000 Motability 13,901 0 Motability 617,955 0 Motor Neurone Disease Association 10,000 0 Muscular Dystrophy 10,000 0 Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association* 0 5,000 NACRO 298,135 300,000 NAFSIYAT 5,000 5,000 National Aids Trust 46,800 0 National Aids Trust 493,500 0 National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare 10,000 10,000 National Association for Mental Health (Mind) 415,000 415,000 National Association for Patient Participation 7,100 0 National Association for the Childless 31,000 33,000 122 Organisation> 1987–88 1988–89 National Association for the Limbless Disabled 15,000 15,000 National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital 90,000 90,000 National Association for Voluntary Hostels 5,250 5,250 National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux 17,000 0 National Association of Leagues of Hospital Friends 13,500 24,000 National Association of Young People in Care 48,000 0 National Autistic Society 10,000 0 National Back Pain Association 20,000 0 National Childbirth Trust 20,000 10,000 National Childbirth Trust 11,000 0 National Childminding Association 22,500 0 National Childminding Association 105,000 105,000 National Childrens Bureau 111,000 111,000 National Childrens Bureau 80,000 80,000 National Childrens Bureau 1,800 34,200 National Childrens Bureau 11,350 45,212 National Childrens Bureau 25,750 12,590 National Childrens Bureau 20,000 0 National Childrens Bureau 27,387 0 National Childrens Bureau 13,333 0 National Childrens Home (Leeds) 19,542 17,500 National Council for Carers and their Elderly Dependants 27,000 27,000 National Council for One Parent Families 150,000 150,000 National Council for Voluntary Organisations* 0 105,000 National Council for Voluntary Organisations 23,783 0 National Council for Voluntary Organisations 94,000 90,000 National Council for Voluntary Organisations 8,183 0 National Council for Voluntary Organisations 92,500 7,500 National Counselling and Welfare Service for Sick Doctors 2,625 0 National Deaf Childrens Society 25,000 0 National Eczema Society 10,000 5,000 National Federation of Kidney Patients 6,300 0 National Foster Care Association 91,000 122,750 National Institute for Social Work 2,125 0 National Institute for Social Work 57,875 0 National Institute for Social Work 73,400 0 National Out of School Alliance 60,000 60,000 National Out of School Alliance 8,500 17,000 National Playbus Association 35,000 112,500 National Playbus Association 15,000 0 National Schizophrenia Fellowship 91,000 91,000 National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children 125,000 125,000 National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children 35,000 0 National Step-family Association 8,000 0 National Tape Magazine for the Blind 500 0 National Toy Libraries Association 45,000 45,000 National Voluntary Organisations Anti-racism Consortium 20,000 12,500 National Youth Bureau 74,000 74,000 NORCAP 5,000 5,000 North Lambeth Day Centre Ltd. 16,000 16,000 North Regional Association for the Blind 52,007 50,669 North Regional Association for the Blind 0 2,500 North West Fellowship 20,000 20,000 Northern Scizophrenia Fellowship 20,000 0 Ockenden Venture 5,401 0 Ockenden Venture 89,380 0 One to One 6,300 0 OPUS 30,000 38,000 Organisation for Sickle Cell Anaemia Research 15,000 15,000 123 Organisation 1987–88 Grant 1988–89 Grant OUTSET 14,500 0 Overseas Doctors Association 15,000 15,000 Pain Relief Foundation 8,000 8,000 Parent to Parent Information on Adoption Service 6,500 6,500 Parents Against Injustice (PAIN) 10,000 10,000 Parents for Children 48,500 48,500 Parkinson Disease Society 14,375 15,000 Partially Sighted Society 10,000 0 Patients Association 7,500 7,500 Phobic Action 5,000 5,000 Phobics Society 5,000 5,000 Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied 23,000 0 Pre-school Playgroups Association 2,480 0 Pre-school Playgroups Association 385,000 385,000 Prince of Wales Advisory Group on Disability 15,000 15,000 Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Disabled 32,500 32,500 Rape Counselling and Research Project 25,000 25,000 Rathbone Society 16,000 0 Raynauds Association Trust 3,500 0 Research Council for Complementary Medicine 5,000 0 Reseach Trust for Metabolic Diseases 5,000 5,000 Richmond Fellowship 97,000 97,000 Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation (RADAR) 225,000 0 Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation (RADAR) 12,000 0 Royal National Institute for the Blind 20,000 20,000 Royal National Institute for the Blind 250,000 250,000 Royal National Institute for the Deaf 28,800 30,500 Royal National Institute for the Deaf 35,000 0 Samaritans 125,000 0 Save the Children Fund 18,000 0 Save the Children Fund 33,000 0 Save the Children Fund 259,500 0 Save the Children Fund 10,000 0 Scoliosis Association UK 1,000 0 Sense (NADBRH) 15,000 15,000 Sense (NADBRH) 30,000 0 Sequal 5,800 5,800 Sequal 35,200 35,200 Sexual & Personal Relationships of the Disabled 33,500 33,500 Sickle Cell Society 15,000 15,000 Society for Mucopolysaccharide Diseases 1,250 0 Society of Voluntary Associates 3,700 3,400 Society of Voluntary Associates 25,000 12,500 Social Work Training Grants 2,400 0 South Regional Association for the Blind 2,500 10,000 South Regional Association for the Blind 73,405 96,452 Spinal Injuries Association 25,000 25,000 St. John Ambulance 10,000 10,000 St. Katherine Housing Trust 18,000 0 Standing Committee on Sexual Abuse of Children (SCOSAC) 2,500 12,000 Standing Conference on Drug Abuse (SCODA) 168,179 0 Standing Conference on Drug Abuse (SCODA) 27,050 0 Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association 22,000 22,000 Tay Sachs and Allied Diseases Association 1,000 1,000 Terrence Higgins Trust 300,000 0 Thalassaemia Society 5,000 0 Tibble Trust 1,000 500 Tuberous Sclerosis Association 1,000 1,500 Turning Point 99,000 124,750 Twins and Multiple Births Association 3,000 3,000 VOCAL 20,000 0 Voluntary Council for Handicapped Children 40,000 0 VOLCUF 27,000 27,000 Volunteer Centre 12,500 12,500 124 Organisation 1987–88 Grant 1988–89 Grant VORTEX 11,600 0 Walsingham Community Homes 10,000 10,000 Wessex Rehabilitation Association 24,000 0 West Yorks Youth Association 25,000 25,000 Westminster Pastoral Foundation 66,000 66,000 Widows Advisory Trust 18,000 18,000 Winged Fellowship Trust 15,000 0 Womens Aid Federation (England) 98,000 24,500 Womens Health Concern 7,000 0 Womens National Cancer Control Campaign 74,500 74,500 Womens Therapy Centre 5,000 5,000 Working Mothers Association 12,000 0 £ for £ Dr. Barnardos 32,865 0 £ for £ National Childrens Home 80,145 19,855 Grand total 14,443,694 7,211,705 Count 296 1 Interim payments—Grants not yet settled.
Richard Johnson of Incest Crisis Line tells of cases such as that of the 58-year-old woman who is visited three times a week by her 82-year-old father.
I have spent little time on the scale of the problem, nor with any of the heartbreaking individual cases, but to illustrate the extent of the problem I shall quote from the Incest Crisis Line document.