**Acknowledgements**

This chapter is an edited summary of the Introduction: 'Why Cleveland still matters; connections with a new era' and the Conclusion: 'Thirty years later: how far have we progressed', originally published in Sue Richardson and Heather Bacon (eds.), Child Sexual Abuse: Whose Problem? Reflections from Cleveland (Revised Edition) 2018; (p. 1-43 & p. 219-236). Re-published with permission of Policy Press (an imprint of Bristol University Press, UK).
