A police force has been ordered to make immediate improvements after a watchdog found it had an “inconsistent” response to child sexual exploitation. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said
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A sex offender who snatched a six-year-old girl off the street and bundled her into the boot of his car is facing a jail sentence. The youngster was playing near
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A pioneering research project is underway in Dundee to help ensure young people at risk of child sexual exploitation are being properly protected. Funded through Comic Relief, the project is
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Special Branch and senior police are accused of sinking investigations into historical child sex abuse by VIPs, MPs and officers in new corruption allegations against Scotland Yard. The police watchdog
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Lawyers in Scotland are calling for a restriction preventing victims of historical child abuse from seeking justice to be lifted. The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) in Scotland say
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Children with learning disabilities are more vulnerable to sexual exploitation than other children, facing additional barriers to their protection and to receiving support, new research from a coalition of leading
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Members of the Aylesbury child abuse ring have been handed lengthy jail sentences for grooming vulnerable under-age white girls for sex for as little as “the price of a McDonald’s,
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The NSPCC’s Child Trafficking Advice Centre (CTAC) is working with Vietnam, Nigeria and Romania to help stop vulnerable children from being trafficked into the UK. Thousands of vulnerable children and
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The findings of an independent review of the Catholic Church in Scotland’s handling of allegations of abuse are due to be published. The Very Rev Andrew McLellan, a former moderator
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Scotland’s most senior Catholic Archbishop, Philip Tartaglia, has apologised to survivors of abuse within the church in Scotland following the publication of an independent review of its handling of allegations.
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