Teenagers aged 16 and 17 should receive special legal protection to deter those who want to sexually exploit them, a Tory MP has said. Kit Malthouse said victims of sex
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More than 100,000 children in England face spending Christmas in temporary accommodation after a sharp annual rise in homelessness, official figures showed. The number of households without a permanent roof
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A woman has told the Rotherham child sexual exploitation trial that a police officer she confided in had sex with girls at houses where she was staying and would pass
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John Swinney’s latest budget plans will be “catastrophic” for jobs and services in Scotland’s councils, local authority leaders have warned. The Deputy First Minister has allocated £10.3 billion for local
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Older people should be encouraged to join choirs, read to young children in schools and learn to use the internet, a watchdog has said. In new guidance aimed at increasing
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A social worker who failed to act upon concerns over the abusive behaviour of a colleague towards a child in their care has been reprimanded at a professional fitness to
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Fewer young people entering the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland has been highlighted as the primary achievement of the Youth Justice Review in a new report published by Criminal
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Northern Ireland Health Minister Simon Hamilton has launched a public consultation on reform of Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care system. The Minister said: “On 4 November I outlined wide-ranging,
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The deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness has paid tribute to the work of the CHARIS Cancer Care Centre in Cookstown when visited the facility on Tuesday. Commenting after his tour
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Dr Simon Hoffman, from the College of Law and Criminology at Swansea University has been asked to act as Vice Chair of a working group that will develop proposals for
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