Preventing child sexual exploitation is a key challenge for everyone is the main message for delegates at a major conference taking place at the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock today.
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Many children suffering from the trauma of sexual abuse can benefit from a therapy using creative methods, according to a study by Durham and Bristol universities. The therapy offered by
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A High Court judge has called for a new “review mechanism” to be set up for individuals whose job prospects and lives are blighted after being labelled sexual offenders as
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A consultation seeking views on a new definition of child sexual exploitation has been launched by the Government. There are currently a number of definitions of child sexual exploitation in
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Two retired social workers responsible for a sadistic “regime of terror” at a children’s home during the 1980s have been handed lengthy jail terms. Alan Todd – who sexually abused
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Nearly a third of female rape victims are girls aged under 16, new figures indicate. The findings emerged as the first detailed breakdown of the age and gender of victims
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Victims say they will continue to press Education Secretary Angela Constance to increase the scope of an independent inquiry into childhood abuse. Andi Lavery, who founded the support charity White
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An independent inquiry into the abuse of children in care is to take evidence from some seriously-ill and elderly victims “as a matter of urgency”, its chair has announced. Susan
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Britain’s top police officer Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has spoken of a “moral crisis” as he announced a judge will probe the controversial handling of claims of a VIP paedophile ring
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Chancellor George Osborne’s shamed psychiatrist brother showed “a blatant disregard for the fundamental tenets of the medical profession” in having a two-year sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient. Dr Adam
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