The Church of England’s annual safeguarding budget has risen from around £50,000 to £7 million, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. The Most Rev Justin Welby added that the church
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A child migrant has told how she was shipped off to Australia and told she had no family – despite her parents and five siblings being alive. Yvonne Radzevicius was
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It is “very concerning” that an inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Telford has taken so long to start, the Prime Minister has said. Theresa May told MPs it was
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More than 100,000 webpages showing images of child sexual abuse have been removed from the internet after intervention by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK charity has said. In
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A child moved to the other side of the world after a “massive lie” gave her hope she would find a better life there, an inquiry has been told. A
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The parents of a malnourished toddler who died have been jailed for more than six years after admitting neglect. Lauren Wade died in hospital from complications arising from malnutrition aged
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An “emotive and provocative” television documentary about the work of a charity led to alleged abuse victims coming forward and sparked thousands of requests for access to records, an inquiry
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Recruiting and retaining staff was a “huge challenge” for some residential care establishments in the past, an academic has told a child abuse probe. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard
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A mother with a “history of mental illness” strangled her seven-year-old son then drowned him in the bath, a court heard. Christina Acres, 37, accepts that she killed George Acres
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Detectives in West Yorkshire have arrested 55 men as part of an investigation into historical allegations of child sex abuse. Police said the men were arrested after seven women made
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