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New compensation scheme for child abuse victims ‘falls far short’, says Lucy Duckworth
We spoke to Lucy Duckworth, from the Survivors Trust.
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New compensation scheme will be introduced to support child abuse victims in England
A new compensation scheme will be introduced to support victims of child abuse in England – as the government said it would help to achieve “some finality”.
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Call for new offence for failure to report child abuse
The sexual abuse of children is an “epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of victims in its poisonous wake”, according to a seven-year inquiry into institutional failings in England and Wales.
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Child abuse victims face long wait for justice, figures suggest
The victims of child sexual abuse are facing an increasingly long wait for justice.
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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: How do we prevent child abuse deaths?
There have tragically been cases like Arthur Labinjo-Hughes before.
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Rotherham child abuse: Police without right skills still taking on child sexual exploitation cases, says police watchdog
Police officers without the right skills or training expected to take the lead on child sexual exploitation cases in South Yorkshire – that’s not a situation from the past, but one of the problems identified today by the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
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A Club like no other? | Investigation into historic child abuse at Celtic Boys’ Club
An independent inquiry will soon report on the decades of child sex abuse in Scottish football.
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Years of police failings in response to Rotherham child abuse, investigation finds
A teenager reported being raped to the police – and was dismissed as a “silly girl”, and told that she was to blame for the abuse she’d suffered.
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Police superintendent guilty of possessing child abuse video
She had a stellar career, but now it could all be in tatters.
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Michael Jackson’s alleged child abuse victims speak out, ahead of controversial documentary
Always denied and never proven. He was the biggest pop star in the world, but Michael Jackson’s career was dogged by accusations of child sexual abuse.
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Pope promises action on child abuse in Catholic Church
A conference on child abuse within the Catholic Church has ended at the Vatican, with Pope Francis describing clergy who abuse children as the ‘tools of Satan.’
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Javid issues threat to tech companies over online child abuse
“I am not just asking for change, I am demanding it”. That was what the Home Secretary told tech companies today, adding that if they don’t step up their efforts to tackle online child sexual abuse, the government will be forced to legislate.
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Minister Victoria Atkins on online child abuse: ‘Last chance saloon’ for tech companies
Home Office Minister Victoria Atkins says her message to tech companies on online child abuse is: “This is the last chance saloon, you’ve got to up your game.”
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British lawyer accused of child abuse dies before police can question him
He was a prominent barrister and Christian leader, accused of brutally beating young boys, all in the name of religion. John Smyth is said to have groomed the boys at Christian holiday camps. In an investigation by this programme it was revealed a report had been drawn up into the alleged abuse in 1982, but not passed…
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Chris Read: ‘We have a national epidemic of child abuse’
Leader of Rotherham Council, Chris Read, discusses the child sexual exploitation reports.
