27 h. ago Deputy head who bit, slapped and scratched pupil is allowed to carry on teaching

Claire Herbert accepted a conditional caution from police for the offence of common assault on the child, who cannot be named for legal reasons

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35 h. ago Teenager forced to expose herself in Met Police strip search says she may ‘never feel normal again’

Two Metropolitan Police officers have been sacked for gross misconduct following a four-week tribunal examining the strip-search in a Hackney school in 2020

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37 h. ago Child Q: 'I don't know if I'm going to feel normal again' says woman as Met officers sacked over strip search

A disciplinary hearing found search by three officers at school in Hackney was ‘unnecessary, inappropriate and disproportionate’

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50 h. ago Two Met Police officers sacked for gross misconduct in Child Q search

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.

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50 h. ago Two Met Police officers sacked over ‘humiliating’ strip search of 15

Black schoolgirl forced to expose intimate parts in ‘traumatic’ police search at Hackney school in 2020 after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

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50 h. ago Two Met Police officers sacked after committing gross misconduct over strip

A disciplinary hearing found search by three officers at school in Hackney was ‘unnecessary, inappropriate and disproportionate’

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51 h. ago Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct with ‘humiliating’ strip search of Child Q

Black schoolgirl forced to expose intimate parts in ‘traumatic’ police search at Hackney school in 2020 after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

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53 h. ago Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct after ‘humiliating’ strip search of Child Q

Black schoolgirl forced to expose intimate parts in ‘traumatic’ police search at Hackney school in 2020 after wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis

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53 h. ago Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct in Child Q search, panel says

A 15-year-old girl was strip searched by officers in Hackney, east London, in December 2020, after being wrongly accused of carrying cannabis.

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54 h. ago Two Met Police officers guilty of gross misconduct after ‘humiliating’ strip search of Child Q

‘Child Q’ was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis when she was searched at a school in Hackney, east London, in 2020

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56 h. ago Men arrested on suspicion of rape by police investigating historic child sex abuse

Both arrests were made in Oldham

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5 d. ago Brit, 22, arrested at Disneyland Paris after 'trying to marry Ukrainian girl, 9'

Disneyland Paris cast members alerted the police after the 22-year-old man was seen with a child, dressed in four-inch heels taped to her feet and accompanied by her Ukranian mother

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6 d. ago Disneyland Paris calls in police over alleged fake wedding with child ‘bride’

Police questioning two people as prosecutor says event at theme park was staged with girl aged about nine and actorsFrench police were questioning two people on Sunday after Disneyland Paris was hired for an alleged fake marriage ceremony involving a girl aged about nine.The theme park complex outside Paris had been hired for what was presumed to be a genuine private wedding early on Saturday morning before opening hours. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Council to consult public on leaving parks and gardens open overnight

It could save the authority £5,000 each year and reduce risks to staff members

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1 week ago Moment ‘paedophile’ calls a child safety hotline as charity warns women now one in 10 offenders

Standard hears simulated call from ‘disgusted’ 23-year-old on visit to Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s headquarters in south London

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1 week ago UK firm not racist for rejecting Chinese applicant over security concerns, tribunal rules

Judge says refusing to hire people from ‘hostile’ states to roles that deal with national security is not discrimination Refusing to give a job to Chinese and Russian people in companies that deal with issues of national security and require security clearance is not racist, an employment tribunal has ruled.It is not discriminatory to stop people from “hostile” states taking up certain jobs in the defence sector because of the risk to British security, the judgment says. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Grooming gang victim reveals abusers' evil tactics to terrify her into silence as she blasts authorities for failing to save her

Fiona Goddard was raped and abused by at least 50 men in Bradford from the age of 14. The mother had been groomed by a gang of Asian men in 2008 when she ran with another girl from her care home.

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1 week ago Police to collect ethnicity data for all cases of child sexual abuse

Requirement made as review finds ‘over-representation’ of Asian men among grooming gang suspectsYvette Cooper has condemned damning failures by the authorities to protect children from grooming gangs as she announced there would be a formal requirement on police for the first time to collect ethnicity and nationality data for all cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation.The home secretary confirmed the government would accept all 12 recommendations of Louise Casey’s rapid review, including setting up a statutory inquiry into institutional failures, marking a significant reversal after months of pressure on Labour to act. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Daughters Of The Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick: Twins wrenched apart by the Chinese government... with one sold to America

After years of China's cruel One Child Policy and hundreds of adoptions to the West, Barbara Demick uncovers the truth behind one separated set of little girls.

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2 w. ago ‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life

The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writesTo read Rachel Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which has won this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction, is to experience an onslaught of often competing emotions. There is awed disbelief at the sheer skill and dedication of the medical teams who transplanted the heart of nine-year-old Keira, who had been killed in a head-on traffic collision, into the body of Max, a little boy facing almost certain death from rapidly deteriorating dilated cardiomyopathy. There is vast admiration for the inexhaustible compassion of the teams who cared for both children and their families, and wonder at the cascade of medical advances, each breakthrough representing determination, inspiration, rigorous work, and careful navigation of newly emerging ethical territ...

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