I'm Nick Jordan, a British writer and researcher living in Australia. Ostensibly a corporate copywriter and editor, I also write about crime and injustice, particularly in the following areas:

- Child sexual abuse, both institutional and domestic.

- The failure of institutions to protect children, or explain why and how these failures occurred, and still do.

- The catastrophic effect that institutional child abuse has had on wider Australian society.

Any authority I have to to speak on these matters, comes from my background working with Australian company, The Voice of a Survivor and other legal clients, who work to support adult victims of childhood sexual abuse, work that is ongoing today; my status as co-founder of the country’s largest online support group for prisoners and their families, a form of penal reform activism; my current work as a legal researcher specialising in child abuse matters, and my professional inclinations as a long-standing journalist.

I suppose the editorial purpose of this page is twofold, one personal, one social, but both combined. During my time working with ‘the Voice’, I personally interviewed hundreds of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and transcribed the testimonies of hundreds more. Were it not for that work, and for The Voice of a Survivor itself, those voices would have remained unheard, frozen in a silent scream of childhood pain and trauma of a type so disturbing, that it passess all understanding. That ‘unhearing’, a deliberate and often organised process, has caused almost as much pain and damage as the abuse itself. It cannot be allowed to stand. It seems to me, therefore, imperative that those voices continue to be heard or, at the very least, that other people who know what happened are prepared to speak for them. So, in a sense, I write for myself, as a way of processing what I’ve heard and know to be true.

But more importantly, I write for them, the survivors, in the hope that one voice, however small, when joined with others becomes a chorus that cannot ever again be ignored, silenced or unheard.

Nick Jordan.