A senior detective who investigated the Newcastle grooming gang said the abusers underestimated their victims’ desire to get justice. Speaking after sentences totalling more than 180 years were handed down
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The alcohol industry is misleading consumers with distorted and distracting health messages that downplay any related risk of cancer, researchers claim. The industry is using “denying, distortion and distraction” strategies
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The number of cases involving a child committing a sexual offence against another child aged 17 or under reported to prosecutors has risen by more than a third in four
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Ministers have been urged to put in place a comprehensive race strategy following the publication of the Lammy review. David Isaac, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said:
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Half of Britain’s teachers and social workers are looking to leave their jobs in the next 18 months because of poor working conditions and stress, a study suggests. Spending cuts
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The number of specialist homes for older people across England will need to increase by 400,000 units in less than 20 years due to the ageing population, according to the
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Plans to sell off a major NHS staffing agency have been abandoned by the Government. Health Minister Philip Dunne said that NHS Professionals (NHSP) will remain in public ownership as
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A man who claimed he had been raped and abused by a Westminster paedophile ring could face charges after the police referred his case to prosecutors. The accuser, known only
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Family court judges have a crisis on their hands because council social services bosses are making more applications for children to be taken from the care of parents, the most
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A psychotherapist has been jailed for 17 years for the rape of a 14-year-old boy in a “degrading attack” in the toilets of a leisure centre. Nicholas Gully, 48, of
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