As I feared, the government are using the exposure of local government failures in child welfare to grab more power for the state. Thousands of children supposedly educated at home by their parents are at risk of abuse, neglect, forced marriage, sexual exploitation or domestic servitude, the Government said yesterday. I don't home school either of my kids (although I have been considering it ...

Barnardo's has called on the Scottish Government to do more to protect children and young people from sexual exploitation.

The consultation on this draft guidance aims to provide practitioners across all relevant agencies and the voluntary and community sector with information about different forms of sexual exploitation to help them identify and safeguard children and young people who are at risk of sexual exploitation, or who are being sexually exploited. It will replace the current guidance, Children involved in Pr...

346 children have been safeguarded in the last three years, the UK's national centre for tackling the sexual abuse of children - the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre - announced yesterday.

Catherine McKinnell MP, Labour's Shadow Minister for Children and Young Families, responding to the leaked contents of the Department of Education's Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation action plan, today said:

Child poverty Child Poverty is a key theme within the Welsh Assembly Government’s Communities First Vision Framework. It includes issues around health and opportunities for children, freedom from abuse, victimisation and exploitation and promotes education, learning and play activities. This theme also promotes respect and recognition of race and cultural identity. Health and Wellbeing Ident...

The true scale of child abuse in the UK was revealed yesterday when Christine Gilbert, the chief executive of the children's services watchdog, told MPs that three children a week died as a result of abuse &# more than triple the previous estimate.

The Conservatives last night moved to embarrass Ed Balls, the children's secretary, over the fallout from the Baby P scandal by pledging to publish for the first time a serious case review into the death of a child under social services care. The action, announced by Tim Loughton, the shadow children's minister, sets a precedent for serious case reviews into child abuse, which are tradit...

The Government is failing to resolve the issue of access to child abuse images on the internet, major children's charities said today.

Police, teachers and councils are failing to protect tens of thousands of children who run away from home every year and face drug abuse or sexual exploitation on the streets, Church of England bishops have warned.