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New SCIE guidance to help tackle inequalities for people with learning disabilities and autistic people
Source: SCIE published on this website Tuesday 21 January 2025 by Jill Powell
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched a new best practice resource for the adult social care workforce: ‘Tackling inequalities in care for people with learning disabilities and autistic people’.
People with learning disabilities and autistic people continue to experience unacceptably poor health ...
Read More..........New pilot shows way for smaller platforms to play big part in online safety
Source: Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) published on this website Monday 20 January 2025 by Jill Powell
A new pilot scheme is showing how even the smallest platforms can help play their part in preventing the spread of child sexual abuse imagery online.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and cyber security company Cyacomb have launched a pilot programme which allows small platforms to benefit f...
Read More..........Former surgeon jailed for five and-a-half years after admitting offences including assault occasioning actual bodily harm and child cruelty during multiple male circumcision operations
Source: Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published on this website Friday 17 January 2025 by Jill Powell
A former surgeon has been jailed for a combined total of more than five and-a-half years (67 months) today (Wednesday 15 January) at Inner London Crown Court having admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm, child cruelty and administering a prescription only medicine to several...
Read More..........Age checks to protect children online
Source: Ofcom published on this website Wednesday 16 January 2025 by Jill Powell
Children will be prevented from encountering online pornography and protected from other types of harmful content under Ofcom’s new industry guidance which sets out how we expect sites and apps to introduce highly effective age assurance.
Today’s decisions are the next step in Ofcom implementing the O...
Read More..........Action Fraud issue new alert warning to look out for unusual messages or phishing emails from hotel accounts using the Booking.com platform
Source: Action Fraud published on this website Wednesday 15 January 2025 by Jill Powell
Those using the platform Booking.com to book their holidays or accommodation are being warned they could be targeted with emails or messages requesting payments from hotels who have had their account taken over by fraudsters. Between June 2023 and September 2024, Action Fraud received 532 reports from individu...
Read More..........Doctor jailed for sexually assaulting female patients
Source: Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published on this website Tuesday 14 January 2025 by Jill Powell
A GP from Salford has been jailed after being found guilty of sexually assaulting women whilst examining them.
Dr Wayne Davis, 69, was jailed for eight years at Manchester Crown Court on 13 January 2025, after conducting unnecessary, intimate examinations and procedures on two women between 1...
Read More..........Embrace Autism celebrates success with report launch
Source: National Autistic Society published on this website Monday 13 January 2024
Autistic Knowledge Development (AKD) and the National Autistic Society Scotland (NAS Scotland) have launched a report celebrating the success of Embrace Autism.
Embrace Autism is a programme of pre- and post-diagnostic support for recently diagnosed or self-identifying autistic adults across Scotland, entirely des...
Read More..........The Children’s Commissioner for England describes the changes, she is putting forward, as needed in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
Source: The Children’s Commissioner for England published on this website Friday January 10 2025 by Jill Powell
Dame Rachel de Souza writes:
“ As Children’s Commissioner, I want England to be the best place for children to grow up, where every child can be safe, healthy and happy. My role was born out of the need to hear children’s voices, who too often are excluded and overlooked in a system de...
Read More..........The Lucy Lamplugh Trust Statement on John Cannan’s death
Source: Lucy Lamplugh Trust published on this website Thursday January 9, 2025, by Jill Powell
John Cannan was a prime suspect in the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh, who went missing on the 28th of July 1986. Suzy’s body has never been found, and no perpetrator ever convicted, but she has been presumed murdered and was legally declared dead in 1993. Though not convicted, in 2002 he was named as a...
Read More..........Major reforms to protect thousands of vulnerable children hidden from sight will take another crucial step forward today.
Source: Department for Education published on this website Wednesday 8 January 2025 by Jill Powell
Major reforms to protect thousands of vulnerable children hidden from sight will take another crucial step forward today, as the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is debated in Parliament (Wednesday 8 January).
Children not in school registers, stronger powers for councils to make sure ch...
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