A teenage mother who was adopted at the age of six after suffering neglect has won a court fight with a council over whether blood relatives should be assessed as
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Ofsted will visit schools and colleges facing allegations of sexual abuse after thousands of testimonials were posted on a website that allows students to share their experiences anonymously. Last week,
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The Government has announced an immediate review into sexual abuse in schools following thousands of allegations from students. Ofsted will look at safeguarding policies in state and independent schools, “the
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Sexual abuse should never be dismissed as “boys being boys” or “banter”, the children’s commissioner for England has urged. Ministers and school leaders are facing growing calls to tackle sexual
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Allegations of coercive and controlling behaviour should be the “primary issue” for family courts when considering cases where one parent claims to have been the victim of domestic abuse. Court
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An independent inquiry into allegations of sexual abuse among pupils could be a good way forward, a private schools chief has said. Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council
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A freelance journalist who wants to examine a file of evidence relating to a girl who was at the centre of private family court proceedings has lost another round of
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Family court judges might be asked to consider more cases in which social workers are concerned about children’s weight, a lawyer has said. News that two teenagers had been taken
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Emma Lewis is a member of the Victims and Survivors Consultative Panel for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. In this blog she talks about her work with the
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Hundreds of children’s lives were ruined by abuse over the course of three and a half decades as warning signs were missed out of “ignorance and naivety”, an independent review
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