ALT Photo of a little puppy wearing a checked shirt

ALT A photo of a paragraph of Sir Robert Martin's biography. It reads "Being in the community was hugely better for those people, but we failed to address the darker stuff, and by that I mean the effects of the abuse. There was sexual and physical abuse in the institutions, many, including Robert experienced that. But there was also something much deeper & much harder to quantify, and it didn't just affect those that were institutionalised. That was the abuse of basic dignity and human rights. Human dignity was taken from these people, sometimes by others who meant well. But the result was always the same, a sense of loss. They didn't feel - and many still don't feel - a part of humanity, and they are locked in a lonely place from which they feel they cannot escape. That can be as debilitating as the physical and sexual abuse many of them have experienced."