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Apple brings child sexual abuse detection tools to the UK

A feature in Apple’s Messages app that can spot and warn children when sexually explicit images are received or about to be sent is to be introduced in the UK. First launched in the United States last year, the tool blurs out images received that ...

20 Apr 2022 at 19:25

Sadiq Khan pushes for ‘gross misconduct’ for officers in Child Q case

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called for the officers who strip searched a black schoolgirl while on her period to be charged with gross misconduct after a report found racism had a role in their decision. A safeguarding report found that the ...

17 Mar 2022 at 12:55

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

Scotland

Scotland will not hit target to reduce child poverty, think tank says

The Scottish Government is not on track to meet its child poverty targets, a new report shows. The Government’s current aim is that by 2030 less than 10% of children in Scottish households should be living in relative poverty. But new ...

16 Mar 2022 at 01:25

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Launch of new community directory for Child, Youth and Family Services

The North Central Child and Family Support Network launched its brand new Community Directory for child, youth and family services in the North Central Donegal area. It was launched by Amanda and Danny O’Carroll, aka Buster and Betty ...

15 Mar 2022 at 23:33

Scotland

Cash needed to help families ‘struggling in tidal wave of poverty’

Ministers are being urged to give more cash directly to families who are “struggling in a tidal wave of poverty”. Campaigners at Poverty Alliance made the plea ahead of the Scottish Government launching its second delivery plan to ...

21 Mar 2022 at 12:55

Scotland

Government to publish ‘bold and ambitious’ new plan to combat child poverty

The Scottish Government will publish a fresh child poverty plan on Thursday. As part of the requirements of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017, the Scottish Government must publish a plan and provide a ministerial statement at ...

24 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Sadiq Khan: Met bosses not providing support London needs after Child Q case

The Metropolitan Police’s leadership are not providing the support Londoners need in the wake of the Child Q scandal, the Mayor of London has said. Sadiq Khan said the case of the 15-year-old schoolgirl, who was strip-searched ...

22 Mar 2022 at 15:55

Home Office adviser says Child Q case ‘should horrify us all’

A Government adviser on violence against women said the strip-searching of a 15-year-old black schoolgirl should “horrify us all”. Protests and political condemnation erupted after it emerged the teenager – referred to only ...

27 Mar 2022 at 09:55

Children ‘do not want to be defined by the pandemic’ – NSPCC

Britain’s children “do not want to be defined by the pandemic” and are “determined to make this a better world”, the head of the NSPCC said. Sir Peter Wanless urged the Government to overhaul the child protection system, ...

11 May 2022 at 15:25

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