Helping The Forgotten Boys.

A trauma-informed guide for professionals in safeguarding, social care, and justice, grounded in lived experience and frontline practice.

Helping the Forgotten Boys: Understanding Institutional Child Abuse is not a memoir. It's not a policy document. It's not a training manual. It is a professional reckoning.

In Helping the Forgotten Boys, Lewis Gell, a victim of institutional child abuse and a national voice for change, issues a direct challenge to the systems and professionals who still fail to grasp the full weight of historic trauma.

Following the first two books in the series, The Forgotten Boys: A Borstal Legacy and Forgotten Boys & Broken Men, this third instalment goes beyond personal testimony. It equips those working in safeguarding, justice, and social care with the understanding and tools they need to do better. Grounded in lived experience and decades of frontline practice, it offers clarity without euphemism and strategy without jargon.

This is a resource for those who truly want to understand. Not just what happened. But what it still causes. And what must now be done.