The number of grooming crimes recorded by police has risen by a third, figures suggest. Children’s charity the NSPCC said police recorded 4,373 offences of sexual communication with a child
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A probation service’s work with offenders remains “unacceptably poor” with concerns raised over failures to check the risks posed to domestic abuse victims and children, inspectors said. The “greatest deficiencies”
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Scarves and blankets made from a train company’s worn-out uniforms are being donated to people living on the streets. Garments such as coats, shirts and trousers originally worn by Virgin
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A father of three was arrested and deported from Dublin Airport while attempting to visit his children in the UK. Ryan Volrath, an American citizen who currently lives in Wisconsin,
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This week the government All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Care released a report on the professionalisation of Social Care workers. The report reiterates what UNISON have been saying for
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A mother jailed over the death of her four-week old baby after she took him out on a drinking binge and fell asleep on top of him has been freed
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A Merseyside charity has opened a new sensory swimming pool for use by people with autism. The pool, owned and run by Autism Together, will be used by a wide
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Hospital bosses have called on a judge to dismiss a couple’s bid to move their brain-damaged daughter from London to Italy. Mr Justice MacDonald has been told that five-year-old Tafida
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The parents of a sick boy who has never tasted food have accused the British Government of prioritising seriously ill children in England over those in Northern Ireland. Jack McCrystal,
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The prison sentence for the teenager who abducted, raped and murdered Alesha MacPhail has been reduced by three years. Aaron Campbell (pictured) took the six-year-old from her bed at her
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