People who prey on children are deliberately exploiting a “legal loophole” to groom young people – by getting themselves into “positions of trust” like driving instructors or sports coaches, MPs
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A nine-year-old girl whose two “dangerous” older brothers pose a risk to her must leave home and live with a foster carer, a family court judge has decided. Judge Simon
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A couple have won a family court fight over the care of a six-year-old grandson who has lived with them for almost all of his life. Council social services bosses
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Child sex abuse survivors have told of the shame and guilt that stopped them reporting their ordeals, and called for an end to the secrecy of religious institutions which they
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Authorities cannot arrest their way out of the scourge of online child abuse, an expert has said. Rather than relying on the police, teachers, or social services to keep children
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Five children have been taken from their mother after social workers raised concern about her partner’s violent past. Judge Eleanor Owens has approved a plan to place the children into
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Family courts are overwhelmed with applications from council social services bosses wanting decisions relating to the care of children, a senior judge has said. Judges are often under extreme time
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A nationwide public health campaign is needed to tackle the child sexual abuse “crisis”, an MP has urged. Labour MP Sarah Champion (Rotherham) told MPs such a campaign would “raise
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A homeless man found living in a filthy car with his two malnourished toddlers has been handed a suspended jail sentence for child neglect. The 24-year-old man, who cannot be
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An Australian yoga teacher has won a High Court fight with his estranged English partner over the future of their three-year-old daughter. A High Court judge based in the Family
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