Taxi driver John Worboys has appeared in court accused of drugging four women in a bid to carry out sex attacks. Grey-haired Worboys, wearing a grey shirt and glasses, gave
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The Government has apologised for the treatment of patients with autism and learning disabilities at Whorlton Hall, branded “tantamount to psychological torture” by Labour. Health Minister Caroline Dinenage apologised on
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Students are posting sexual abuse allegations on social media because universities are not listening, the National Union of Students (NUS) has said. Speaking on new BBC podcast The Next Episode,
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Giving free social care to the over-65s could save the NHS £4.5 billion a year by enabling more elderly people to get care in the community, a leading think tank
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Hospital staff have been secretly filmed “torturing” patients with learning disabilities and autism during an investigation experts described as “horrific”. A BBC Panorama programme uncovered staff mocking, taunting, intimidating and
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The scrapping of start-date protections under Universal Credit (UC) is “deeply alarming”, the DWP has been told. MSPs have warned thousands of Scots are suffering financially because UC no longer
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A former Army officer has been jailed for three years and two months after he spent thousands of pounds watching children being sexually abused, streamed from the Philippines. Andrew Whiddett
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A nationwide public health campaign is needed to tackle the child sexual abuse “crisis”, an MP has urged. Labour MP Sarah Champion (Rotherham) told MPs such a campaign would “raise
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Theresa May was urged to personally intervene over compensation to those who suffered institutional abuse in Northern Ireland after she was told “victims are dying without seeing justice”. DUP Westminster
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A man accused of lying about a VIP Westminster paedophile ring gave police a list of potential abusers after he had been shown a series of photographs by a journalist,
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