Child abuse charges against social worker dropped
The trial of a senior social worker accused of sex attacks on vulnerable boys has been thrown out of Newcastle Crown Court. Brian Tansey stood accused of five counts of
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New photo piles pressure on head of government abuse inquiry
Fiona Woolf is facing mounting pressure to step down as chair of the Government’s historic child abuse inquiry after it emerged that her list of meetings with former home secretary
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Ex-council manager says Police prioritised car crime over sexual abuse
A woman who ran a unit to tackle sexual exploitation for more than a decade has accused senior police officers of failing to act on the problem and telling her
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Head of abuse inquiry position ‘beyond the pale’
The head of the independent inquiry into historic child sex abuse is coming under growing pressure to stand down, as a lawyer representing victims said her social relationship with former
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Rotherham report author joins government abuse probe
The author of the Rotherham sex abuse report will serve alongside lord mayor of London Fiona Woolf on the Government’s overarching inquiry into child sex abuse, the Home Secretary announced
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Vaz ‘astounded’ at £40k executive pay-off at Rotherham
Rotherham council, at the centre of a child sexual exploitation scandal, has been condemned for giving a £40,000 pay-off to an official who quit following a damning report into the
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Rotherham just the tip of the iceberg warns Chief Constable
There could be “many more” cases of child sex abuse like that uncovered in Rotherham where at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited, a leading police officer has said. The
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Danczuk claims Greater Manchester Police ‘not tackling grooming’
A campaigning MP has criticised one of the country’s leading police officers for failing to tackle grooming gangs and said his views on child abuse are “dangerously out of step
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Council data shows over 6,000 children vulnerable to exploitation
More than 6,000 children across England have been reported as at risk of child sex exploitation since the beginning of 2013, it has been claimed. Channel 4 News said it
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Children identified as victims of revenge pornography
Children as young as 11 have been victims of revenge pornography, with their perpetrators often evading justice due to loopholes in the law, new figures show. Campaigners and politicians have
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