British Gymnastics enabled a toxic culture that prioritised profit over safeguarding and encouraged an era in which young gymnasts were subjected to shocking levels of physical and mental abuse. The
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A 10-week-old girl was murdered by her parents just hours after a visit from the family’s social worker, a court has heard. Lily-Mai Hurrell Saint George suffered 18 rib fractures,
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Four Metropolitan Police officers are being investigated for gross misconduct after a 15-year-old black schoolgirl was strip-searched. The teenager, referred to as Child Q, was strip-searched by female Met officers
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The number of child cruelty and neglect offences increased by a quarter in a year as England emerged from the pandemic, police figures indicate. Freedom of information (FOI) requests to
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Amber Alerts about missing or abducted children are to be launched on Instagram in the UK and other countries around the world. The feature has been developed in partnership with
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Rising levels of child poverty may be contributing to thousands more children going into care in England, research suggests. Child poverty is a “major preventable driver” of youngsters being removed
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Dedicated child protection teams made up of police, healthcare staff and social workers should be set up in every local area, according to a review into the deaths of Arthur
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Social workers have had to leave their homes because of abuse and threats following the trial of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’s killers, a council boss has said. Nick Page (pictured), chief executive
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The great-grandfather of murdered toddler Star Hobson has said she and her mother Frankie Smith were failed by social services. Smith, 20, was jailed last year for her role in
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A woman has been jailed for a minimum of 18 years for the murder of a one-year-old boy she was hoping to adopt. Leiland-James Corkill had been placed with Laura
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