Values

• F.A.C.T. abhors child abuse. We accept sadly that children are abused, including sometimes by their carers and by their teachers, but believe that the extent to which this happens is exaggerated.
• F.A.C.T. is clear that all forms of abuse are wrong, and recognising that the police, investigative agencies, and listing bodies have a difficult job to do.
• F.A.C.T. accepts that all complaints of abuse must be thoroughly investigated.
• F.A.C.T. encourages the immediate reporting of abuse. We believe that anyone who has been abused has responsibility both to themselves and to wider society to report this immediately it happens.
• F.A.C.T. will not allow anyone into its membership unless they warrant that they have not abused a child (or vulnerable adult) and sign a declaration that any allegations of abuse that have been made against them are false.
• F.A.C.T. strongly believes in the indivisibility of justice – for those who are abused as children (and their families) and for those who are falsely accused of abuse.
• F.A.C.T. believes that safeguarding children and vulnerable taking seriously the possibility that false allegations of abuse have been made are not mutually exclusive concepts – both are important and both impact on each other.