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Child protection

August 2024

  • Jenni Fagan and Samantha Morton photographed at the Union Club in London, August 2024

    ‘The hardest thing is to forgive yourself’: actor Samantha Morton and writer Jenni Fagan on the trauma of growing up in care

    Both women have used their work to process childhoods ravaged by neglect and abuse. Meeting for the first time, they discuss survival and anger, Fagan’s new memoir, and the state of the UK’s care system today
  • Children’s names written under brightly coloured hand prints

    The brutal calculation that decides if children in danger get help

    The child protection system is so stretched that some cases are simply marked ‘closed’ without children being seen at all, caseworkers say. In the northern rivers, the situation is among the worst

    • A powerful man given free rein and indulged, Huw Edwards is proof the BBC hasn’t changed

      Jane Martinson

    • BBC wipes Huw Edwards from archive but role in state occasions presents challenge

    • What’s ahead for Kosa, an online safety act for minors, as it reaches US House?

July 2024

  • Close-up of the presenter wearing sunglasses

    How the Huw Edwards scandal might affect the BBC’s reputation

  • a man speaks while women hold photos of children

    US Senate passes major online child safety reforms which face uncertain fate in House

  • Acasia Welburn

    School worker jailed for sexually abusing autistic boy aged under 16

  • An aerial view of the old Kinchela Boys Home outside Kempsey, NSW, Australia

    Buried lives
    NSW boys home grounds to be explored after possible ‘clandestine’ human burial sites revealed

  • Discovery of poliovirus in Gaza ‘incredibly alarming’, Unicef executive director says

  • Tackling misogyny in UK schools could take up to 20 years, says Jess Phillips

  • AI advances could lead to more child sexual abuse videos, watchdog warns

  • UK parents should check under-18s’ phones for nude photos, says police chief

  • Council to review child protection case that triggered Leeds unrest

  • In the box
    Crime and nourishment: the Koori court giving help and hope to traumatised kids

  • Children missing from Home Office hotels likely to have been trafficked, report finds

  • Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • Children could be blocked from social media as well as porn sites in Australian trial of age check technology

  • Porn sites and Meta among those tasked with drafting Australia’s online child safety rules

June 2024

  • Children on a cart cross the border between Sudan and Chad.

    Children trapped in war zones because of UK refusal to ease refugee visa rules

    ‘Abject failure’ of family reunion scheme to provide legal route is leaving children at risk of trafficking or even death
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