Professionals are still concerned about tackling so-called honour-based violence because of “cultural sensitivities”, a Home Office Minister has admitted. Karen Bradley said “certain professionals” still do not have the confidence
Read More
Two former teachers at a boarding school have been charged with historic sex offences against pupils. The offences concern the alleged abuse of children at Ashdown House School, near Forest
Read More
A former social worker who used his position at a “brutal” children’s care home to carry out a string of sex attacks in the early 1980s has been jailed for
Read More
Investigating child sex abuse cost police £1 billion last year and is set to treble by 2020, the top officer in charge of child protection has said. Simon Bailey, chief
Read More
A woman who was awarded an OBE for services to the vulnerable has spoken out after being wrongly accused of child cruelty. Aideen Jones, 63, and her husband Denis, 66,
Read More
A fiercely-criticised police investigation into claims of a VIP paedophile ring has been dropped. The Metropolitan Police probe, called Operation Midland, was launched in November 2014 after claims that boys
Read More
Alleged child abuse victims do not want “any innocent person to be pilloried, let alone convicted”, a campaigner has said. Founder of The National Association for People Abused in Childhood,
Read More
Former Tory MP Harvey Proctor has demanded three politicians apologise and Scotland Yard face an inquiry over their handling of child abuse allegations that implicated him. Deputy Labour leader Tom
Read More
New research from Barnardo’s Cymru and Wrexham Glyndwr University has highlighted the risk of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in North Wales. The research, launched to mark CSE Awareness Day (Friday 18
Read More
Children at risk of sexual exploitation could be slipping through the net because they are not “stereotypical” victims, a report has warned. Boys and girls targeted by older women are
Read More