An 8 minute read by Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale.

We have recently published two posts about the wall of silence that has long protected sexual abuse in Britain. The first was about the Archbishop of Canterbury and dozens of other church officials covered up the gruesome physical and sexual abuse of many boys and young men. The second was about how Jimmy Savile’s abuse was covered up for decades. This post looks at another example of that wall of silence – the way that the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the sexual abuse of children was effectively buried.