A hospital nurse with a history of mental health difficulties put the painkiller Tramadol into the feed of newborn baby in a “moment of madness”, a family court judge has
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There has been a spike in the number of young people seeking counselling about child-on-child sexual abuse, Childline has said. The children’s charity said it held 3,878 counselling sessions with
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Adopting a child in Scotland takes approximately two to three years, despite the Scottish Government having made an “explicit commitment” to making permanent arrangements for such children as early as
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Children from the former Calais jungle camp are set to be granted the right to remain in the UK. The Home Office has announced that more than 200 youngsters from
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The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) had information about alleged abuse of children a decade before it was reported but did not investigate it, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland said.
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Police are discovering child abuse image offences on average every 23 minutes, according to the NSPCC. Recorded crimes of viewing indecent pictures or videos of children rose by a nearly
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A man has been arrested after a missing teenage girl was found by police. Naomi Rees, 15, was hunted by officers across the UK after she went missing from her
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A British mother who moved her daughters to Alaska without their father’s permission has been jailed after admitting abduction charges. Indea Ford, 34, broke court orders to take the children
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A woman has had seven children taken from her care after social workers raised concern about “chronic neglect” with family court judges. The woman’s first child was removed from her
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Prue Leith has shared a family photograph of herself and her adopted daughter as part of a campaign to encourage others to consider adoption. The Great British Bake Off judge
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