CURB

35 Years of Safeguarding Work

20 Years as a Public Archive

Birthday Message — May 2026

CURB marks twenty years as a public archive in 2026 — but its origins reach back to 1991, when the work began under the Children’s Anti‑Bullying Initiative (CABI). What started as a community‑driven effort to protect children from bullying evolved into CURB in 2006, expanding its reach and strengthening its mission.

In 2021, CURB was relaunched to meet the growing need for clear, accessible safeguarding guidance and to document the systemic failures affecting families across the UK. This relaunch laid the foundation for the full public archive that now exists.

Since then, CURB has grown into a trauma‑informed, evidence‑based record of systemic harm across multiple public systems. The archive documents judicial and regulatory failures, safeguarding breakdowns, welfare‑system contradictions, and the lived experience of navigating institutions without protection.

CURB is now documenting additional cases involving health‑service procedural breakdowns, clinical‑governance failures, and safeguarding concerns. These cases reinforce the systemic patterns already evidenced across the legal, regulatory, and welfare systems.

Across two decades online, thousands of readers have used CURB to understand safeguarding failures, systemic harm, and the procedural barriers faced by vulnerable people and their advocates. The archive continues to grow as new evidence emerges and new cases are reviewed.

CURB remains what it has always been:

• a safeguarding resource
• a systemic‑harm reference
• a public‑interest archive
• a space built for clarity, safety, and accountability

Thank you to every reader who has walked through these pages quietly over the past twenty years. Your presence shows why this work matters — and why it continues.

CABI began in 1991.

CURB went public in 2006.

The archive stands in 2026 — and its impact is still unfolding.

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