Council staff “put vulnerable children in the path” of sex offenders, who infiltrated children’s homes and foster care, with “devastating, life-long consequences for their victims”, a damning report into decades
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A centre for sexual assault victims has been praised by the Justice Secretary as a “beacon” of the model he would like to see across Scotland. The Meadows, based at
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A former pupil of a private boarding school has told how he was sexually abused by another student and beaten so frequently his “buttocks were always bruised”. The man, who
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The widow of a Court of Appeal judge wiped away tears as she denied sexually abusing a young boy in the 1980s. Lady Lavinia Nourse was married to Sir Martin
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Twenty-nine men have been charged in connection with the child sexual exploitation of one victim in West Yorkshire. The men are accused of committing offences, including rape, attempted rape, indecent
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A 47-year-old man who was sexually abused by a manager at a privately-run children’s home when a teenager has failed in a bid to claim damages from the council which
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Hundreds of children’s lives were ruined by abuse over the course of three and a half decades as warning signs were missed out of “ignorance and naivety”, an independent review
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Boarding schools across Scotland have offered an “unreserved apology” for the alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse students faced. The latest phase of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, heard before
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The Football Association was guilty of inexcusable “institutional failings” in delaying the implementation of child safeguarding measures between 1995 and the spring of 2000, an independent review of historical sexual
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Almost 400 submissions, including 39 so potentially serious they have been referred to the relevant statutory authorities, are being considered by the Whyte Review into allegations of abuse and bullying
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