The assistant head teacher at a school attended by Lucy McHugh has told a court that social services decided to take no further action after she raised concerns about the
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A mother has admitted smothering her three-month-old daughter with a pillow after being diagnosed with “mild” post-natal depression. Kamila Bogdan, 41, killed baby Julia at home in Croydon, south London,
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Police in London have raised concerns with safeguarding authorities about vulnerable children and adults on average 700 times a day in recent years, newly reported figures show. Nearly 1.3 million
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A Home Office pathologist told a court she could find no evidence of any of the sadistic injuries an ex-nurse claimed to have suffered at the hands of a VIP
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Moors murderer Ian Brady came in contact with vulnerable borstal boys for more than five years at Wormwood Scrubs prison, files reportedly show. The child killer was even allowed to
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The Home Office is looking at beefing up Asbo-style civil protection orders to make sex offenders get treatment, Sajid Javid has said. The Home Secretary told the NSPCC’s How Safe
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Fresh plans to crack down on child sexual exploitation are to be announced after a “surge” in potential paedophiles seeking help before they offend. The Home Secretary is set to
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A joint study by researchers at the Universities of York and Stirling has found that 90% of children in Scotland who go into care when aged five or under have
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The Catholic Church needs to make child safeguarding a number one priority, the secretary to the sex abuse inquiry has said. Gaps remain in the Archdiocese of Birmingham’s approach to
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A teacher convicted of sexually abusing boys at a school run by a religious order has told a child abuse inquiry he let boys sleep overnight in his room. Paul
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