From the dawn of newspapers, murder has been a major component of the news agenda. It is unsurprising. In civilised society, the killing by one human being of another human being is an appalling act. It is the crime of crimes... more
A church pastor is facing jail after trafficking children into Britain and keeping them as servants in her home in a case described as 'modern day slavery'... more
Decade after murder of Victoria Climbié, the foundation set up in her name warns that the secrecy around child abuse investigations meant lessons were not being learned... more
Peter Connelly's horrific death was a 'wake-up call' for people to raise concerns about children they feared were being abused, campaigners said... more
WHEN Sharon Shoesmith was ordered out of her job as head of children's services in the borough where Baby P died, the Children's Secretary Ed Balls said: "This kind of failure should not be rewarded with compensation or payoffs."... more
The case of Baby P turns out to have a significance far beyond the individual tragedy of the child’s violent death at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend and her lodger, and raises troubling questions about the quality of child protection in this country... more
The meeting this weekend in New York of the world's 20 largest economies comes as the financial crisis is curdling into something even more serious — a full-blown international recession... more
Social workers in Haringey have been the subject of 115 complaints to the local government watchdog in the years since the death of Victoria Climbié... more
The case of Vivian Gamor, the paranoid schizophrenic who murdered her two children in Hackney last year, offers a deeply disturbing insight into the operation of the borough's social services... more
A social worker sacked after the death of Victoria Climbié says she will not work in child protection again, despite winning a tribunal hearing... more
Eight years after Victoria Climbié's murder, the social worker who was made a scapegoat tells of her guilt, her grief and the little girl she can never leave behind.... more
I recently wrote in this paper about Melissa,a young girl I mentor through FUN, an organisation in north London that matches adult volunteers with emotionally vulnerable kids. The response to the piece was staggering - hundreds of emails arrived, some wanting to know more, others sharing good or bad stories... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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