Child protection officers are to be investigated by the police complaints watchdog over delays in acting on intelligence about hundreds of suspected paedophiles. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said it
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A care home company has been fined £100,000 for breaching safety laws after the death of an 85-year-old resident who suffered serious burns following a fall. Walter Powley died in
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The number of prisoners taking their own lives has risen to a seven-year high, with Government cuts to staff being blamed for the growing problem. Fourteen of the 82 people
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Tens of thousands of teenagers have fallen off the radar with no information available on whether they are in education or training, a cross-party group of MPs has warned. Councils
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A sick 91-year-old retired civil servant who was an RAF gunner during the Second World War is to get £60,000 damages after local authority social services staff moved him to
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An inquiry into historical child sex abuse claims has stopped holding survivor meetings amid chaos over its leadership and questions over its future. All planned “listening” sessions have been shelved
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The true quality of activity to tackle child abuse and neglect across the country could be being obscured because of Ofsted’s blinkered approach to inspecting children’s services, local government leaders
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A file concerning past “unnatural sexual” behaviour at Westminster has been discovered among the National Archives. The document, previously classified, was uncovered by university lecturer Dr Chris Murphy late last
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A member of the independent panel into child sexual abuse has told MPs she has been “bullied” by the barrister conducting the embattled inquiry. Home Secretary Theresa May set up
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The number of elderly people receiving social care from local authorities in England has fallen by almost a third over the past decade – despite an ageing population – a
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