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I represent a client who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Frank Roper when he was a child, through Roper’s role as a football scout for…
I represent a client who was sexually assaulted by Ted Langford when he was a child, through Langford’s role as a football coach and scout…
Urgent reforms are required in order to protect our children’s mental wellbeing The NSPCC’s report “How safe are our children? The most comprehensive overview of…
Barry Bennell, who had links with Crewe Alexandra, Manchester City and Stoke City, has been charged with eight further counts of child sexual abuse. The…
A former teacher arrested over child sexual abuse offences that allegedly took place at a boarding school in Ongar has been found dead before charges…
I’ve blogged previously about the Schools Consent Project, which tries to address the lack of sex education in schools by sending volunteer lawyers into schools…
As we move into 2017, Operation Hydrant, the national approach to co-ordinating all non-recent child abuse investigations across the country, will shortly reach its fifth…
Jonathan Wheeler discusses the different ways consent is dealt with in English courts “The age of consent” “The age of consent” is a concept that…
Immigration detention refers to the government practice of detaining asylum seekers and other migrants for administrative purposes whilst they wait for permission to live in the UK…
As technology continues to develop and children face ever more risk of grooming by online paedophiles, our laws must keep pace with technology or we…
It seems like a scary time to be a woman. With Donald Trump and his “locker room” talk, Turkey attempting to decriminalise the actions of…
“More than 200 hundred years ago the British House of Commons passed historic legislation to make the slave trade illegal. But sadly, the grim reality…
On 4 August 2016, the Office for National Statistics released their analysis of the annual crime survey for the year ending March 2016. This survey…
Eric Bristow is a former darts world champion and sports broadcaster who recently posted a number of inflammatory and wholly inappropriate comments on his Twitter…
The NSPCC published a report this month detailing the challenges facing the UK in tackling online child sex abuse images. Child sexual abuse images are described as a visual…
In the last few days, there has been extensive disclosure of child abuse suffered by a number of footballers at clubs across the country. At…
In the wake of news that two top footballers were sexually abused by their coach when they were teenagers, Jonathan Wheeler writes that sports coaching…
As a trustee of the charity One in Four, I recently attended a meeting with Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead…
Last week was another challenging week for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, following on from weeks of rumours, allegations of racism and the…
Emotional abuse: recent developments In recent years there has been much focus in the media on sexual abuse and discussion about how to prevent it. …
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