Addressing childhood adversity and trauma should be a national public health priority, Labour has said. Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said action was needed because around half of adults in
Read More
A man who was shipped to Canada in the 1940s under the child migrant programme has described the experience as a “living hell”. Edinburgh-born Roddy Mackay, who waived his right
Read More
The Executive Office in Northern Ireland is encouraging responses to a consultation on draft legislation intended to help the victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse. The department has published
Read More
After climate change, there is nothing more serious than poverty and there is clear evidence that it leads to higher levels of child abuse and neglect, said the University of
Read More
A charity helping abused children has launched a campaign to fight childhood trauma brought on by neglect. Over the festive period, there is a surge in calls about children left
Read More
Survivors of abuse at children’s homes across Northern Ireland have criticised government proposals on compensation as “derisory”. Draft legislation to establish a compensation scheme for victims will come on Monday
Read More
Thirty people will go trial charged with offences relating to the alleged sexual exploitation of children in Huddersfield, a judge has ruled. Twenty five of the defendants appeared at Leeds
Read More
A gang of six men have been given jail sentences of up to 23 years after sexually exploiting vulnerable teenage girls in Rotherham. A judge told the defendants they “perpetrated,
Read More
More than a quarter of people who alleged they were abused at a children’s home said they had told staff about the attacks while they were still in care, an
Read More
A woman and her ex-partner have been jailed for 10 years each for allowing the death of a toddler who was tied face-down to a “cage bed”. Lauren Coyle and
Read More