Julian Ware-Lane, Labour Parliamentary candidate for Castle Point, has pledged to support the NSPCC's 'I stand for children' campaign which aims to make child protection a priority for the next Parliament. Julian Ware-Lane said: 'As a candidate in Castle Point I am supporting the NSPCC's new campaign to ensure protecting children is a political priority: I Stand for Childr...

Along with "paedophilia", the term "child" has become so expanded as to risk losing coherent meaning. In terms of child protection legislation, a child is anyone below the age of 18 years. That you can drive, have sex, get married and go to war whilst still a "child" is just to highlight our decidedly convoluted views on these matters.

The pope has written a letter in response to all this business about child abuse by Irish Catholic churchmen. It starts off by waffling on about how Irish Catholics have had a hard time over the centuries but there have been some outstanding chaps in that period too. He continuous with bits aimed at the people who

Child protection rules that led two police officers to be banned from babysitting for each other because they had not submitted to criminal records checks will be formally scrapped.

The global economy has shattered. No it hasn’t you silly little man. Global GDP will be around $60 trillion this year as it was around that last year. The new understanding goes hand-in-hand with discoveries in evolutionary biology, neuro-cognitive science and child development that reveal that human beings are biologically predisposed to be empathic.

A 12-year-old boy who thought he had "immunity" from being locked-up has become one of the country's youngest prisoners.

Rielle Hunter, squeeze of former Presidential hopeful John Edwards and mother of his love child, poses for GQ and, in doing so, shows a disturbingly literal interpretation of the term "MILF"... That kid is going to need a lot of mind-bleach when she grows up...

Gordon Brown has promised that new fathers will be able to stay overnight with their wife or girlfriend after the birth of a child during a Mothering Sunday drive to win female votes.

The mother of James Bulger has demanded that her son's killer must face justice amid fears that he may escape charges over the alleged possession of child pornography.

Baroness Butler-Sloss, the judge who gave lifelong anonymity to James Bulger's killers, has said that the public should be "more merciful" to child criminals.