Where is the line between discipline and abuse

Broken Trust is a three-part documentary about an autistic, barely verbal child who came home from school injured, and what happened when his parents asked how it occurred. When CCTV evidence was uncovered and ignored, the focus shifted from safeguarding to suspicion. The child’s father was formally accused of behaviour that was entirely unsupported by evidence, an allegation capable of causing devastating reputational harm and raising serious questions about retaliatory and malicious communications. Told from the perspective of a parent with expertise in digital manipulation, the series reveals how digital evidence and safeguarding policies can be weaponised to silence challenge, and asks what happens to parents without the knowledge or resources to defend themselves. Above all, it is about pursuing justice for the most vulnerable in our society when powerful systems attempt to quietly make their cases disappear.