A pub chef has been convicted of murdering his ex-partner after blaming her for their child being taken into care, the Crown Prosecution Service said. Darren Osment, 41, killed Claire
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Recorded cases of adults neglecting, mistreating or assaulting children have doubled in five years, police figures show. Freedom of information (FOI) requests to 35 forces across England show 29,405 cruelty
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Child poverty levels in the UK have risen by a fifth in recent years, according to Unicef, ranking worst among some of the world’s richest countries. When it came to
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A 15-year-old girl with a history of self-harming so extreme she has to be watched by four people is living in hospital because of the national shortage of secure accommodation.
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The operation of a scheme designed to transfer unaccompanied child asylum seekers from the care of one council to another has improved in recent months, a High Court judge says.
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The National Crime Agency (NCA) says it is confident it has done “all we realistically can” to identify victims of the Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal after identifying more than
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The number of lone child asylum seekers in England has risen by almost a third in a year, according to the latest figures. There were 7,290 looked-after children as of
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A High Court judge has refused to give council social services staff permission to change the forename of a boy called “Mia”. Mr Justice Cobb heard that the boy, who
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Scotland’s minister for Children and Young People has announced six locations which will be used as test sites for a child protection service. Natalie Don, SNP MSP for Renfrewshire North
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A major children’s charity has accused the Government of failing young victims of sexual abuse by having given only a “piecemeal” and “underwhelming” response a year after the final report
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