Investigating child sex abuse cost police £1 billion last year and is set to treble by 2020, the top officer in charge of child protection has said. Simon Bailey, chief
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Former Tory MP Harvey Proctor has demanded three politicians apologise and Scotland Yard face an inquiry over their handling of child abuse allegations that implicated him. Deputy Labour leader Tom
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A fiercely-criticised police investigation into claims of a VIP paedophile ring has been dropped. The Metropolitan Police probe, called Operation Midland, was launched in November 2014 after claims that boys
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Alleged child abuse victims do not want “any innocent person to be pilloried, let alone convicted”, a campaigner has said. Founder of The National Association for People Abused in Childhood,
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Calls to the national domestic abuse helpline have soared by nearly a fifth in a year, fuelled in part by a hard-hitting storyline about coercive control in The Archers. Britons
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Children at risk of sexual exploitation could be slipping through the net because they are not “stereotypical” victims, a report has warned. Boys and girls targeted by older women are
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A detective working in a child abuse investigation unit has appeared in court accused of a string of child sex offences, including alleged attacks on an eight-year-old girl. Detective Constable
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Paedophiles involved in abusing children in care who believe they are “untouchable” should be “looking over their shoulder”, the Welsh Secretary warned. Stephen Crabb said successes by an ongoing criminal
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The Western Trust recently hosted a two day child protection conference which brought together professionals from across health and social care to share best practice in the safeguarding of children. The
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The public inquiry into historical child sex abuse will hold preliminary hearings linked to its investigations into allegations that exploitation took place within the Anglican Church and through Rochdale council.
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