As always, while I mostly agree with you there is one point I think needs bringing out.

(5) Teach kids that they have rights. Teach them to stand up for themselves and to tell lots of people when they are harmed by anyone. Include self-advocacy in the national curriculum

This already happens a lot. It isn’t a solution because almost by definition the children at risk from the scary psychopaths who run places like this Jersey hell-hole (and it is such a nice island…) are poorly educated and often not subjected to mainstream education. One of the few things the right-wing media has right (but unlike them, I don’t see it as a problem) is that most children are fully aware of what their rights and entitlements are. (The problem is lack of education over responsibility but that describes society as a whole, not just children)

I agree 100% over the need to have responsible, caring, outsiders available to children in care homes. That in itself would go a LONG way to preventing a lot of the abuse.

The media keeps stressing that this particular care home was closed 20 years ago, as if the years between the 1940s and mid -1980s were in some long-forgotten medieval era, in which such behaviour was possible.

This is doubly ironic given how much the media cries out for a return to the values of this exact time period.