George Galloway says he was abused as a child, as he lends support to a new vetting system for people who work with children.

Young people who can talk openly about sex with their parents tend to delay having sex and are more likely to use contraception when they do. Talking to children about sex Talking about sex to your child doesn’t mean you are encouraging them to have sex. The best way to start talking about sex is to: start when your child is young, as waiting before your child reaches puberty can make it awk...

Talk Internet is the first UK ISP to implement a system that blocks their users' access to websites containing child sexual abuse images (CSAI). The system, provided by Watchdog International, is called NetClean WhiteBox.

The number of child sex abuse websites in Europe has soared and the violence shown has become more extreme, the European commission and Europol, the European police agency, warned yesterday. Jacques Barrot, EU commissioner for freedom, justice and security said Europe was facing "an extremely dramatic situation" after the number of child abuse websites increased fourfold between 2004 and 2007. At ...

JUSTICE secretary Kenny MacAskill has praised the "world class" police operation which snared Scotland's biggest child abuse ring.

A letter in today's Telegraph: Sir - We seem to want to take comfort in the belief that child abuse was just as common in the past. Child abuse to the death is many times more common where the mother was not married to the father and the present boyfriend is not the child's father. Those household arrangements are many times more common than in the past. We need not depend on theory. The...

From LifeSiteNews By Kathleen Gilbert Ontario police yesterday celebrated the results of a province-wide child pornography bust, the largest in Ontario's history - yet officers acknowledge they have only scratched the surface of the massive underworld of child sexual abuse in North America. Police officers said at a press conference Thursday that the sweep led to the arrest of 31 child sex of...

The case of Baby P means the system of investigating the most serious incidents of child abuse must be reformed according to Ofsted.

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.

Patrick Vessey over at the LPUK blog discusses a letter in today's Telegraph: Sir - We seem to want to take comfort in the belief that child abuse was just as common in the past. Child abuse to the death is many times more common where the mother was not married to the father and the present boyfriend is not the child's father. Those household arrangements are many times more common than in the pa...