More than two million children in England are growing up in families where there are serious risks, a study has found. The Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, said more than a
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Sexual harassment on the Tube could be tackled with targeted adverts, the Minister for Women has said. Victoria Atkins also hit out at the “offensive” portrayal of women in music
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Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi has called for an independent inquiry into Islamophobia in the party, describing the Tory response to claims of anti-Muslim prejudice as “woefully inept”. Baroness Warsi (pictured)
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A London-based nurse who used voodoo threats to traffick vulnerable women from Nigeria to Germany to work as prostitutes has been jailed for 14 years. Josephine Iyamu exposed her five
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A global DBS check for aid workers should be introduced to better protect vulnerable children from sexual abuse, ministers have been told. Labour former minister Stephen Twigg made the call
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The days of “cops and robbers” may be in the past for many young children, as most nurseries are now banning them from bringing in and playing with toy weapons,
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Council bosses took legal action after a social worker mislaid a notebook containing sensitive information about families he was working with. Bosses at Derby City Council discovered that Gideon Zeti’s
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The NHS accidentally disclosed data on 150,000 patients who had objected to the sharing of their information, it has emerged. Data was shared for clinical audits and research on the
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Focus on the Brexit “soap opera” has delayed the Government’s response to a report examining abuse of British children sent overseas, a minister has suggested. Jackie Doyle-Price thanked Labour’s Lisa
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A Tory former minister has called on the Government to make social care “free at the point of use”. Mark Prisk told MPs that with health and social care being
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