A 16-month-old girl died from “utterly catastrophic” injures after she was “repeatedly physically assaulted over the weeks and months before her death”, a jury has been told. Star Hobson (pictured)
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Legislation incorporating children’s rights into Scots law must be brought back before Holyrood urgently, opposition parties have insisted. Conservatives and Liberal Democrats made the plea after the UK Supreme Court
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Dame Esther Rantzen hailed “the work, the commitment, and the passion” of the volunteers and staff of the charities she set up after being honoured at the Women of the
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A “bullying” father and stepmother “poisoned” his six-year-old son with salt and exposed him to months of “cruel” abuse before murdering the youngster as his head was “banged repeatedly against
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A teenager who had been subject to council child protection plans was taken from his mother’s care after social services staff were told that he had not changed his clothes
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This independent review focuses on the tragic death of Lilly Hanrahan, a 21-month-old child in November 2017 as a result of catastrophic brain injuries following a violent assault. The child’s
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A 21-month-old girl was murdered by a babysitter after the Probation Service failed to pass on information suggesting he posed a potential risk to children, a serious case review has
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A father who threw his baby daughter into her cot more than 20 years ago has been cleared of her murder. Dean Smith, 46, inflicted horrific head injuries to four-week-old
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The Football Association and its clubs should have faced sanctions over the use of feeder teams where paedophiles operated, according to abuse survivor Ian Ackley. The Sheldon report, published exactly
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Maternity and specialist support services must engage more with fathers to help prevent vulnerable babies being seriously injured or killed, a child safeguarding review has found. Insufficient attention to men
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