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Alleged football child abuse by Frank Roper

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…

By Joseph Carr
Football child abuse by Ted Langford

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…

By Bolt Burdon Kemp
Access to mental health for young children

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…

By Siobhán Crawford
Former football coach Barry Bennell charged with further child abuse offences

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…

By David McClenaghan
Former Elmbridge School teacher arrested over child abuse offences found dead

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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
MP's vote against statutory sex education

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…

By David McClenaghan
Operation Hydrant: Latest statistics and reporting from the front line

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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
Why The Law is an Ass on the Question of Consent

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…

By Jonathan Wheeler
Abuse in immigration detention

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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
There is STILL a #FlawInTheLaw

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…

By Joseph Carr
The Ched Evans verdict and what it means for evidence in rape cases

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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
Tackling Modern Slavery

“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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
ONS statistics reveal extent of childhood sexual abuse

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…

By Joseph Carr
The impact of words on child abuse survivors

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…

By David McClenaghan
Scale of child sex abuse images on the internet is a "social emergency" says NSPCC

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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
Child abuse in football – and sport in general

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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
A very dark side to the beautiful game

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…

By Jonathan Wheeler
Operation Hydrant – Where are we four years on?

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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
Another tough week for IICSA

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…

By Rebecca Sheriff
The Impact of Emotional Abuse

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. …

By David McClenaghan
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