An awareness-raising campaign aimed at challenging common misconceptions about how victims respond to rape has been launched. The Rape Crisis Scotland project hopes to address the “myth” there is a
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Emilia Fox and Emily Watson are among the female celebrities voicing their commitment to women’s rights in a powerful new film for ActionAid. Charlie Webster, Lucy Rose, Frances Barber, Tanya
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The Child Protection Improvement Programme was established in February 2016. There are nine interconnected work strands which are helping to deliver our child protection system vision (the Child Protection Systems
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A report which concluded that senior detectives investigating the death of 13-month-old Poppi Worthington were “unstructured and disorganised” has left her mother “profoundly disappointed and distressed”, say her lawyers. The
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A former child migrant shipped by British authorities to an Australian farm rife with sexual violence has told how “nearly every day was a rape day”. The survivor, who cannot
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The cost of compensation for survivors of childhood abuse in Scotland could total at least £200m, MSPs at Holyrood’s justice committee have heard. A bill has been tabled which would
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The mother of murdered April Jones has warned “anything can trigger” dangerous sexual predators amid suggestions viewing child abuse images should not always lead to prosecution. A senior police officer
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A violent paedophile who made a “hidey hole” in his home to conceal a girl he was abusing has been jailed for 27 years for a string of serious sex
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Vulnerable British children shipped overseas in a controversial migration programme were victims of “unacceptable depravity” including torture, sexual abuse and slavery, an inquiry has heard. Thousands of children were relocated
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The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will hold its first public hearings into the child migration programmes on this morning. The child migration programmes were large-scale schemes in which
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