Calls to the NSPCC Helpline about serious child abuse have increased significantly since the death of Baby Peter two years ago, the charity said today.

A SENIOR social worker is to face a disciplinary hearing over allegations he persuaded young offenders to pose topless. Christopher Hardman, a former manager with the Dewsbury-based youth offending team, is accused of offering young women money to pose naked and encouraging them to lie about their age.

Doncaster’s troubled children’s services department is recruiting a new management team as part of attempts to bolster child protection in the borough.

A QUALIFIED nurse who refused to take job as a cleaner when new bosses took over the care home where she worked has won her case for unfair dismissal.

TWO workers have been cleared of abusing elderly residents in a Hull care home. Kathryn Mary Broadley, 59, and Tina Taylor, 53, were found unanimously not guilty by a jury at Hull Crown Court of ill-treating and neglecting five women aged between 77 and 90.