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...

Child Benefit has been found dead after HM Customs and Revenue lost the personal information of nearly 25 million UK citizens in the post - fatally compromising the integrity of both the government and the Child Benefit system and leading to the impending bankruptcy of the nation's children in a financial disaster even more embarrassing than the Northern Rock cock-up. Child Benefit was the proud b...

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...

George Galloway today described the figures on child poverty in his constituency as “truly shocking”. The Campaign to End Child Poverty, an umbrella organisation for more than 130 including Barnardo’s, Unicef and the NSPCC, has produced research showing 5.5 million children in poverty in Britain. Bethnal Green and Bow has some of the highest concentrations

Writing over on Up Pompeii, Gandalf rightly takes Islam to task over its (ab)use of people with learning difficulties in arranged marriages. The callous use of people with learning disabilities or who are physically disabled by the religion of peace followers is child abuse, I say child abuse because people with a learning disability very often have the IQ of a child, the chronological age is not ...

A TOTAL of 7.8 million families in the UK receive child benefit, with £20.30 a week for the eldest child, and £13.40 for every other child.

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 ...

Civil laws under which victims of historic child abuse are awarded compensation require simplification, said Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing.

Of course child sexual abuse is a heinous crime that should be punished. But fantasising about child sexual abuse should not be.

The child abuse scandal that has engulfed the Vatican has intensified after two more bishops offered to resign and the leaders of 5m Catholics in England and Wales issued public apologies