Major reforms to children’s social care will not “prevent evil” but offer an opportunity to limit the number of tragic cases, an education minister has said. Will Quince (pictured) told
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Former Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been jailed for 18 months as a judge said he faced “a day of reckoning” for groping a 15-year-old boy in 2008. The
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A woman has been convicted of murdering a one-year-old boy she was hoping to adopt. Leiland-James Corkill was placed with Laura Castle (pictured) 38, and her husband Scott Castle, 35,
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A woman who sexually assaulted and raped a child with two other men has been jailed for life. Vicki Bevan (pictured, centre), 37, was given the life sentence by Judge
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Britain’s children “do not want to be defined by the pandemic” and are “determined to make this a better world”, the head of the NSPCC said. Sir Peter Wanless (pictured)
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A woman has told a jury she finally admitted killing the 12-month-old boy she was hoping to adopt to “give him justice”. Laura Castle, 38, entered a plea of guilty
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The Justice Secretary has said the Parole Board needs a “fundamental overhaul” after it rejected his bid to keep the mother of Baby P behind bars. Tracey Connelly, whose son
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Jimmy Savile was one of the UK’s most serious serial sexual predators. Over several decades the television personality groomed and abused up to 1,000 boys and girls in TV studios
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A 54-year-old married man has been jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old girl – but the court heard his wife is standing
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The true scale of alleged child abuse in local authority foster care may never be revealed due to historic issues with record keeping, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard. Opening
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