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MASH child protection agency misses targets
The Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) in Oxfordshire, set up after seven men were convicted of abusing six girls, has missed referral response targ...
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Centre of Expertise to tackle child abuse to be created
The government has committed £8 million to create a national Centre of Expertise in tackling child abuse – and work will get underway in August. Th...
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Mental health problems dominate ChildLine
One in three ChildLine counselling sessions last year were to do with mental health concerns, and mental health problems make up three out of the top ...
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Child Safety Week focuses on turning technology off
Child Safety Week, run by the Child Accident Prevention Trust, takes place on 6–12 June 2016. The theme for this year is ‘Turn off technology for ...
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National Deaf Children’s Society calls for review after abuse allegations
The National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) has called for a government review into the way the most vulnerable children and young people are cared ...
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Call to reduce stigma of youth homelessness
A charity has called on policy-makers and commissioners to reduce the stigma around youth homelessness so that young people are more willing to seek h...
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Four in 10 adults discriminated against as children
A Save the Children survey has revealed that almost 40% of adults say their childhoods were blighted by discrimination because of where they were born...
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Children ‘criminalised’ in care homes
Police are being called to children’s homes thousands of times a year and children are being wrongly ‘criminalised’, according to the Howard Lea...
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