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

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...

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...

Three children killed EVERY WEEK in England A total of 210 children, 21 of them babies, died of abuse or neglect in only 16 months in England, it was revealed today. The 'horrific' figure - equivalent to three deaths a week - was revealed by the schools and social work watchdog Ofsted to MPs on the Commons schools select committee who are investigating the Baby P tragedy. MPs said they f...

Ed Balls, the children's secretary, yesterday ducked the key issue of whether child protection services were adequately funded, as he gave the government's response to the Baby P abuse scandal. Although he committed £58m to plans for recruiting more top-quality social workers in England, Balls did not respond to a proposal that child protection should get a ring-fenced budget that ...

You’d like to think that they’d get important numbers correct, wouldn’t you? Last night the figures used to estimate the scale of child abuse in Britain were themselves under scrutiny. The annual report of education and children’s service inspectors Ofsted, published last Wednesday, stated that 282 child deaths had been reported by local authorities across England

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

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 ...