Franziska Meinck from the SPS Social Work team at The University of Edinburgh has received a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant for a study on the transmission of violence
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A new safety and wellbeing service has been launched for women in Scotland selling or exchanging sex or sexual activity online. The service, called Click, aims to respond to the
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The main cause of the Metropolitan Police’s disastrous investigation into fabricated claims of a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster was “poor judgment and a failure to accurately evaluate known facts”,
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The Home Secretary has asked a police watchdog to investigate Scotland Yard’s disastrous investigation into fabricated claims of a VIP paedophile ring in Westminster. Priti Patel wrote to the Chief
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A serial dating site rapist has had his prison term extended by two and a half years after sex attacks on a further five women. Father-of-three Jason Lawrance (pictured) contacted
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A former Four Seasons Health Care worker has been arrested over allegations of sexual abuse at two residential care homes in Belfast. Police say the man, aged 48, was arrested
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A rape pornography law brought in four years ago has had little impact with few prosecutions, a legal academic who campaigned for its introduction has said. More than eight out
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A former DUP mayor has quit the party after being charged with sexual offences involving a child. Thomas Hogg (pictured), 31, is set to appear before Belfast Magistrates’ Court later
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Pupils at schools linked to a religious order were “robbed of their childhoods” by the physical and sexual abuse which took place there, an inquiry has heard. Paul Reid, representing
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A former headmaster of a prestigious music school rocked by child sex abuse scandals has told an inquiry he “bitterly regrets” not knowing what was going on. John Vallins was
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