Child Abuse
Ahead of tomorrow’s Stage 1 debate in the Scottish Parliament, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the Natural Environment Bill poses several risks to the balance of deer management in Scotland. BASC has briefed MSPs on its main concerns and is urging a rethink of proposals that could undermine effective… Read more »
The House of Lords Select Committee for the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has just announced its final oral witnesses, and it will not hear from terminally ill individuals or those who have assisted loved ones to die. Clare Turner, a terminally ill person, and Louise Shackleton, who accompanied her husband to Switzerland… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff A controversial scheme allowing parents to check if someone close to their children has a history of sex offending will be expanding. The scheme, which originally operated in Warwickshire, is now in force in Hampshire, Cambridge, and Cleveland. So far, police have received 79 requests for information and disclosed in ten cases…. Read more »
Mr Speaker, in November last year, I commissioned an urgent inspection of children’s services in Haringey following the failure of agencies in that borough to intervene decisively to protect a little boy. And following the Joint Inspectors’ report, I took the immediate actions I judged necessary to protect vulnerable children in Haringey. I also asked… Read more »
