In a recent letter to Jo, the NHS has apologised for how the abuse was handled in 1990.<\/p>\n
The letter says that “unfortunately, when you were seen in 1990 the organisations would not have had a strong safeguarding governance structure” and this is “sadly evidenced in your available medical notes.<\/p>\n
“The abuse against you was not fully understood and your voice was not heard in the process.”<\/p>\n
Referrals that could have been made \u2013 meaning to police and other bodies \u2013 “appear not to have been enacted”, the letter notes.<\/p>\n
The letter then apologises for this “historical practice”.<\/p>\n
Jo told the BBC the abuse in the NHS records should have been identified when Carrick joined the police, and he could have been prevented joining at all.<\/p>\n
“He shouldn’t have been a police officer,” she said.<\/p>\n
Jo said the recent BBC Panorama undercover investigation into Met Police showed a culture in which Carrick would have “fitted in like a glove”, and that she is alarmed by that.<\/p>\n
Jo wants change and for women’s voices to be heard.<\/p>\n
“Just don’t suffer in silence”, she said.<\/p>\n
“Just keep talking. Keep telling people. If somebody won’t listen, go somewhere else.”<\/p>\n
“Everyone should be a valued person. Everyone should be listened to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent letter to Jo, the NHS has apologised for how the abuse was handled in 1990.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-583575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}