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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A predatory paedophile who worked with Newcastle United’s youth players and sexually abused boys over three decades has been jailed for 20 years. George Ormond, 62, worked with a prominent
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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 detective constable failed to properly investigate child sex abuse claims and was only found out when the matter came to light again a year later. Sussex Police officer Celia
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Around 1,100 complaints about safeguarding in aid agencies have been made since the Oxfam sex scandal in February, the head of the Charity Commission has said. Chief executive Helen Stephenson
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An English High Court judge has approved the placement of a sexually-abused 14-year-old girl at a specialist unit in a rural area of Scotland. The youngster had endured a “damaged
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A predatory paedophile who helped in Newcastle United’s youth set up has been convicted of sexually abusing young players spanning almost 25 years. In the 1970 and 1980s George Ormond
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A man known only as Nick who sparked a £2.5 million police investigation into a claimed Westminster paedophile ring has been charged with allegedly lying about child murders and abuse.
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The second phase of hearings into allegations of abuse at children’s homes run by a religious order has drawn to a close following weeks of “powerful, compelling and disturbing” testimony.
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Almost 200 women have had to declare they are rape victims to qualify for additional child tax credits since a controversial welfare reform was introduced, MPs have heard. The SNP’s
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