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Children don’t merely need to be heard, their complaints need to be passed on to the authorities. There were people who knew, for instance the nurses at Stoke Mandeville who told the children to pretend to be asleep when Savile visited, but who were helpless in the face of the refusal of their own management to refer the matter to the authorities.
Management of course didn’t break the law, because there wasn’t (and still isn’t) any law requiring institutions caring for children to report allegations of abuse committed against the children in their care.