Children in need of help will be able to get counselling on their smartphones through a new app launched by the NSPCC’s Childline. The app will allow youngsters to chat
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The family of murdered five-year-old April Jones have called for sex offenders to remain on the register for life. April’s mother, Coral, and sister, Jazmin, were speaking ahead of a
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Three alleged victims of the late Lord Janner are not pursuing their compensation claims against his estate. On Thursday in London, Senior High Court official Master McLoud was told by
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The Child Protection Improvement Programme was established in February 2016. There are nine interconnected work strands which are helping to deliver our child protection system vision (the Child Protection Systems
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A report which concluded that senior detectives investigating the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington were “unstructured and disorganised” has left her mother “profoundly disappointed and distressed”, say her lawyers. The
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The Scottish Government is to bring forward a new law to criminalise the emotional abuse and neglect of children. Childcare and Early Years Minister Mark McDonald announced the move in
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The mother of murdered April Jones has warned “anything can trigger” dangerous sexual predators amid suggestions viewing child abuse images should not always lead to prosecution. A senior police officer
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A violent paedophile who made a “hidey hole” in his home to conceal a girl he was abusing has been jailed for 27 years for a string of serious sex
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A former child migrant shipped by British authorities to an Australian farm rife with sexual violence has told how “nearly every day was a rape day”. The survivor, who cannot
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The cost of compensation for survivors of childhood abuse in Scotland could total at least £200m, MSPs at Holyrood’s justice committee have heard. A bill has been tabled which would
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