School secretaries, caterers or caretakers could face jail if they fail to raise the alarm about child abuse. As well as teachers, doctors and social workers, those in administrative or
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The second most senior judge in England and Wales has been asked to decide whether a family court judge’s behind-closed-doors ruling relating to the murder of six-year-old Ellie Butler should
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Boys who become the victims of sexual exploitation often miss out on help and support because they are reluctant to admit their abuse, new research from Barnardo’s Cymru has revealed.
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A mother and her civil partner who murdered her two-year-old son are appealing against their convictions. Rachel Trelfa or Fee (left), 32, and partner Nyomi Fee, 29, were found guilty
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The mother of a 13-month-old girl who was sexually abused by her father before her death has said she is “angry and disappointed” with the decision not to bring about
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Vulnerable girls at a “toxic and destructive” Church of England children’s home were drugged and sexually and physically abused over nearly 20 years, a report has revealed. Revelations of sexual
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A woman who used an electric dog collar on a toddler during a “cruel” catalogue of abuse has been jailed for three years and four months. Lanna Monaghan had acquired
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Children responsible for harmful sexual behaviour are too often treated as “mini sex offenders”, according to a new report. They should be considered as children “first and foremost” and not
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New research launched by the University of Oxford says foster carers who have faced unproven allegations of abuse from the children they are caring for often have little support afterwards.
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John Swinney is to meet with abuse survivors in an attempt to reassure them about the independence of Scotland’s child abuse inquiry in the wake of the resignation of two
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