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...

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. Tsk, tsk. Don’t be so mealy mouthed. That these children are not given up to hte tender mercies of the State is itself child abuse. Of course it is. Being taught

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 ...

The next time you call a plumber or electrician, beware. He/she may in fact be a spy, paid for by Nanny to inform Nanny about suspected child abuse. I kid you not! Plumbers and electricians in Lincoln could soon be asked to spot signs of child abuse while at work. All 800 Lincoln City Council employees are to receive training to help them detect signs of abuse. Staff who spot signs of abuse while ...

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 ...

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

GEORGE Galloway said he was the victim of child abuse today, as he gave his backing to a new government vetting system for those working with youngsters.

Over 80% of children killed or seriously hurt through neglect or abuse were not on the child protection register, it is reported.

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...

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.