Routine safety checks on the dangers offenders could pose to children, their partners and the public are not being carried out as probation officers buckle under the pressure of overwhelming
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A NHS Forth Valley nurse who failed to report an allegation a vulnerable three-year-old girl was being sexually abused has been struck off. A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness
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A judge has raised concern about a council’s handling of a case involving three children with links to Bermuda who have been in temporary foster care for more than 20
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Scotland’s ban on smacking has been passed on what has been hailed as a “momentous day for children’s rights”. Children’s campaigners were amongst those who welcomed the passage of the
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A police force has been told to take “immediate action” on how it deals with children in custody after one was held for eight hours without review, a report found.
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Hundreds of children in care are being “marched back” to visit their abusive parents and a majority of foster families want to see the practice made illegal, research suggests. More
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“Welcome, you’re normal, we’ve been waiting for you” is the message would-be offenders are receiving from child abuse forums on the dark web. Rob Jones, director of threat leadership at
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More than 50 social workers at seven local authorities across the country are trialing the use of a specially-created bag of resources to help professionals to communicate and engage with
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The death of a five-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by his mentally ill mother could not have been “predicted or prevented”, according to a new report. Emma Jackson
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The Government has “apologised unreservedly” for “unacceptable failings” in probation services which contributed to a five-year-old boy being beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend. An inquest into the death
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