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Serious child safeguarding concerns remain, Education Secretary told

The council leadership in two areas where vulnerable children were murdered need to be held to account about their failings, ministers have been told. A cross-party group of MPs has written to Education Secretary Kit Malthouse to tell him they are ...

27 Sept 2022 at 01:01

Officers investigated for misconduct after strip search of black schoolgirl

Three police officers involved in the “traumatic” strip search of a black teenager at her school have been investigated for misconduct. The search, by Metropolitan Police officers, took place in 2020 without another adult present and in the ...

16 Mar 2022 at 16:55

Dedicated child protection teams vital to prevent future tragedies, review finds

Set up dedicated child protection teams to prevent future tragedies, says review

Dedicated child protection teams made up of police, healthcare staff and social workers should be set up in every local area, according to a review into the deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson. The way child protection is ...

26 May 2022 at 10:51

Social workers forced out of homes due to abuse after Arthur Labinjo-Hughes case

Social workers have had to leave their homes because of abuse and threats following the trial of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes’s killers, a council boss has said. Nick Page, chief executive of Solihull Council, said the murder of the ...

26 May 2022 at 15:22

Deputy FM distances herself from ‘attempts to blame other organisations’

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has distanced herself from Sinn Fein’s “attempts to blame other organisations” in the fallout around their sex offender former employee Michael McMonagle. She was questioned during ...

07 Oct 2024 at 16:14

McDonald vows ‘complete overhaul’ of Sinn Fein governance for McMonagle failings

Northern Ireland

Leader pledges ‘complete overhaul’ of Sinn Fein governance after McMonagle case

Mary Lou McDonald has announced a “complete overhaul” of Sinn Fein’s governance procedures as she apologised for the party’s handling of a sex crime investigation into one of its former press officers. The Sinn Fein ...

07 Oct 2024 at 20:35

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Sinn Fein review after McMonagle case will not be completed before election

A Sinn Fein governance review which was prompted by child safeguarding concerns will not be completed until after the general election, Mary Lou McDonald has said. Sinn Fein has been beset by a series of ...

14 Nov 2024 at 11:33

Northern Ireland

Sinn Fein review after McMonagle case will not be completed before election

14 Nov 2024 at 11:22

More than 480 children died or seriously harmed by abuse, report reveals

More than 480 children in England died or were seriously harmed by abuse or neglect, a new report has revealed, a day after 10-year-old Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother were found guilty of her ...

12 Dec 2024 at 08:46

Police and Prevent under scrutiny as details emerge on Southport killer

Teenager Axel Rudakubana had attacked a pupil with a hockey stick, used school computers to look up the London Bridge terror outrage and carried a knife on a bus and into class before he carried ...

23 Jan 2025 at 18:17

Government suffers Mental Health Bill defeats amid efforts to modernise laws

The Government has suffered several defeats in the Lords as peers debated ways to modernise mental health legislation, including an expansion of police powers to other authorities who could ...

31 Mar 2025 at 22:19

Children put at ‘unnecessary risk’ under proposals to overhaul mental health law

Some of the UK’s “sickest children” will be put at “unnecessary risk” as a result of the Government’s proposals to overhaul mental health legislation, Parliament has heard. Baroness ...

31 Mar 2025 at 19:55

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