A baby girl who died from a serious head injury after being found unresponsive at her home was unlawfully killed, a coroner has ruled. Healthcare professionals were concerned about 10-week-old
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Survivors of child abuse still feel a waiver built into a new Bill to compensate them is a “betrayal”, a campaigner has said. The Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse
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A senior judge has raised concern about the way a police officer and council social worker questioned an eight-year-old girl who said her mother had sexually abused her when she
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A Bill that aims to provide financial compensation for survivors of historic childhood abuse has been backed by a committee of MSPs. But Holyrood’s Education Committee has raised some of
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A young boy who suffered burns after one of his parents held him against a heater should leave home and live with a relative, a judge has said. Mrs Justice
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A man is facing a lengthy prison sentence after pleading guilty to 96 counts of child sexual abuse. David Wilson, of Kirstead, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court
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A former MSP has said government ministers were led to believe the sexual abuse of children in care was not a systemic failure and therefore did not justify a public
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Stricter online protection laws must be introduced after online grooming rose by nearly a third during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to a children’s charity. The NSPCC said there were 268
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The Government is being urged to bring forward “tough” online harms legislation after a children’s charity warned lockdown had created a “perfect storm” for offenders to groom youngsters. Research by
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A mother has been found guilty of allowing the death of her two-year-old son who died of a head injury after being murdered by her partner. Sarah O’Brien, 33, was
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