Serious concerns about the record number of investigations launched when information suggests a child is being seriously harmed has prompted councils to call for emergency funding in the forthcoming Budget.
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A former nursery worker wept in court as she went on trial alongside a boyfriend, with both accused of the murder of her two-year-old daughter. Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell and Scott Jeff,
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A former primary school teacher and Scout leader has been jailed after having a sexual conversation with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Unbeknown to Samuel Robinson, of Butt
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A further 10 arrests have been made as police continue to probe historic allegations of abuse at a former residential school in Stevenston. Kerelaw (pictured) was a secure establishment for
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A paedophile who murdered an 11-year-old boy while he was a teenager has been refused release by the Parole Board. Convicted sex offender Dominic McKilligan, 44, killed schoolboy Wesley Neailey
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Huw Edwards’ “long-earned reputation is in tatters”, a judge has said as he sentenced the former BBC presenter for accessing indecent images of children. The disgraced ex-newsreader (pictured) was spared
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Six former staff members at a boarding school for boys with learning difficulties have gone on trial accused of a catalogue of offences linked to an alleged “culture of neglect”
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A former limousine driver who used his stretch Hummer to groom and sexually abuse teenage girls in Rotherham has been jailed for 24 years. David Saynor, 77, plied his victims
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A former police officer has been handed a suspended prison sentence after admitting child sex offences, the police watchdog has said. Police constable Darcy Woods-Broady, 21, who served with Gloucestershire
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Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards has admitted accessing indecent photographs of children as young as seven after a man he met online sent him hundreds of sexual images on WhatsApp.
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