Following Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness week, Emma Lewis, Victims and Survivors Consultative Panel Member for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, shines a light on her own
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An NHS hospital doctor has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. The Sunday Times reported the arrest was for child sexual assault and followed complaints about the examinations of
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A police manhunt has been launched for a convicted sex offender who “presents a particular danger to women and young children”. Paul Robson (pictured), who is serving a life sentence
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Children may be less safe under proposed changes to NHS structures which could destabilise safeguarding partnerships that “already need urgent improvement”, a charity has warned. The NSPCC said it is
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Boris Johnson has embarked on a mini-reshuffle as he continued to resist calls to apologise for his controversial attack on Sir Keir Starmer over Jimmy Savile. Chief Whip Mark Spencer,
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A disgraced peer found guilty of trying to rape a young girl and sexually assaulting a boy aged under 11 in the 1970s has been jailed for more than five
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The Commissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse has written to the First Minister and deputy First Minister expressing serious concerns that a planned apology will not go ahead. It
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A violent ex-partner who fatally stabbed a mother and her young autistic son in front of a distressed baby before leading police on a 24-hour manhunt has been convicted of
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Harrowing evidence of child sexual exploitation by organised gangs offered only a glimpse of the ordeals suffered by young victims. Over the course of two months in 2020, the Independent
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There are “extensive failures” in the way child sexual exploitation by criminal gangs is tackled, with police and authorities potentially downplaying the scale of abuse over concerns about negative publicity,
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