Leading charities have called for an independent inquiry into how more than 200 asylum-seeking children have gone “missing” from Home Office hotels, describing the situation as “a child protection scandal”.
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Young people are being trafficked across the Channel to the UK and then “into cannabis farms or into prostitution”, Labour has suggested. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper (pictured) said there
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The Home Office is investigating reports that dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs from a hotel run by the department, a minister has said. Conservative frontbencher Lord
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Stagecoach founder Dame Ann Gloag “strongly disputes the malicious allegations” made against her after being charged with human trafficking offences. A spokesperson for the bus company tycoon said she would
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A woman who claimed she was the victim of an Asian grooming gang has been convicted of perverting the course of justice. Eleanor Williams, 22, published pictures of her injuries
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A woman accused of lying about being the victim of an Asian grooming gang staged a “finale” to her story when she injured herself with a hammer and posted an
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A woman who allegedly lied about being the victim of an Asian grooming gang has told a court she was trafficked across the country and in Ibiza. Giving evidence at
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Primary school-aged children running drugs for gangs has “become the norm” while young teenagers are heading up county lines operations, the former children’s commissioner has warned. Anne Longfield (pictured), who
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More than half a million safeguarding concerns about the suspected abuse of adults were raised during 2021-22 – up nine per cent in a year, figures have shown. An estimated
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A vulnerable man brought to the UK was forced to work and hand over his wages, stripped of his passport and bank cards and denied showers and clean clothes, a
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