Merseyside Police is piloting a new learning tool developed by University of Liverpool that should help officers provide an improved service for victims of the complex new coercive control law.
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The Duke of Cambridge has met the mother of a young man who took his own life as he opened the UK’s first centre outside of a clinic or hospital
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A family court judge has criticised social services staff over their handing of a case involving an injured baby, but kept the name of the council they work for secret.
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Actress Sheridan Smith will star in award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern’s new feature-length BBC drama called Care, it has been announced. Smith will play a single mother-of-two whose life is transformed
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The sister of a convicted sex offender has been found guilty of posting the names of his victims online. Sophie Turner, 19, of Old Swan, Liverpool, was found guilty at
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A woman was banned from visiting her mother in a Liverpool care home after she complained about her treatment, the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman has found. The woman,
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The father and uncle of murdered toddler James Bulger have launched a legal challenge against an order made almost two decades ago which has allowed killer Jon Venables to live
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A men’s jail where inmates can wear their own clothes and have phones in their cells has been praised by the prisons watchdog. Inspectors found HMP Altcourse had “bucked the
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A petition calling for answers on why James Bulger’s killer was free to commit more offences will be debated in Parliament. James’s mother Denise Fergus welcomed the decision to debate
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Serial paedophile Barry Bennell has been convicted of abusing more young footballers after grooming them with claims that he could fulfil their dreams of a career in the sport. The
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