The Children’s Commissioner is launching a two-year national inquiry into child sexual abuse within the family environment including forced marriages. Maggie Atkinson (pictured), the Children’s Commissioner for England, said: “Society
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A former youth worker with Pembrokeshire County Council has been jailed for six years after he admitted child sex offences. Michael John Smith, aged 49, was a line manager with
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A Safeguarding Board public awareness campaign to tackle the issue of Child Sexual Exploitation in Northern Ireland has begun. The campaign ‘The More You Know, The More You See’ aims
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Child protection services in the UK are still at risk of being takenover by profit making companies, despite Government claims to the contrary, warned UNISON today. Revised legislation published this
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A childcare manager has been struck-off after sending a six-year-old home alone because of not being on the register for that day’s after-school club. Sarah Stewart, of Angus, Tayside, has
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Kids Company has launched a new campaign to ‘generate the change that our country’s vulnerable children are desperately waiting for’. Launching the ‘See The Child – Change The System’ campaign,
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The number of people barred from working with children as a result of committing sexual offences against youngsters has plunged since vetting and barring legislation was changed three years ago,
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Many child protection and mental health services are in crisis and a large number of children and young people are slipping through the net, a new report published tomorrow will
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Thousands of mothers have had more than one child removed by the family courts over the last seven years, according to new research. English court records show that 7,143 mothers
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Thousands of child sexual abuse victims are being left frightened, depressed and even suicidal after giving evidence in court – 25 years after a major government inquiry said they should
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