Operation Pallial: 275 come forward with allegations
Police investigating allegations of historical sexual abuse in the North Wales care system have said 275 people have come forward to report that they were assaulted or mistreated. As of
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Tag: Child Abuse
Child Abuse Review: Child sexual exploitation, victimisation and vulnerability
Abstract: Issues concerning the sexual exploitation of children and young people remain the subject of considerable political, media, public and professional concern. This special issue begins with Jenny Pearce’s paper
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Call to include NI boys home in Westminster abuse inquiry
Keith Vaz has called for activities at Kincora Boys home in east Belfast to be included in the Westminister inquiry which is being set up to examine how public institutions
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Care workers among 660 held in child images crackdown
Several hundred suspected paedophiles including doctors, teachers and care workers have been arrested in the biggest ever UK crackdown on obscene images of children. The unprecedented six-month operation headed by
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May tells MP’s she has no regrets over Butler-Sloss
Home Secretary Theresa May has insisted she does not regret appointing Baroness Butler-Sloss to chair an inquiry into allegations of historical child sex abuse by establishment figures, after the former
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Archbishop: Church must show justice to survivors of abuse
An inquiry into allegations of child sex abuse at the heart of the establishment is likely to turn up fresh claims about the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury
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Butler-Sloss steps down from Westminster child abuse inquiry
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, the retired judge appointed by the Home Office to probe allegations of child sex abuse by MP’s, has stepped down from the inquiry following widespread concern about her
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NSPCC insist covering up abuse should be criminal offence
Covering-up child abuse should be made a criminal offence, says the head of the NSPCC Peter Wanless. The child protection charity’s chief executive, who is leading a review into how
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Concern over decision of Baroness to head abuse inquiry
Concerns have been raised about choice of a former High Court judge to oversee the Government’s inquiry into allegations of an establishment cover-up of child sex abuse. Baroness Butler-Sloss (pictured)
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Home secretary announces wide-ranging child abuse probe
An independent inquiry is to investigate the handling by public bodies of allegations of child sex abuse, Home Secretary Theresa May has announced. The announcement in the House of Commons
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