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Kansas lawmakers pass bill to help child sex abuse survivors

Kansas legislators have given final approval to a bill that would make it easier to pursue criminal charges or file lawsuits over childhood sexual abuse years after the abuse occurred

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on Sunak’s grooming crackdown: blunt tools will do more harm than good

Editorial: Child sexual abuse victims deserve more from ministers than divisive stereotypes and inflammatory language

The Guardian - UK

No 10 denies using dog-whistle politics in grooming gangs crackdown

Rishi Sunak claims victims previously ignored ‘due to cultural sensitivity and political correctness’

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Malka Leifer found guilty of sexual abuse of former students

Malka Leifer, former principal of the Orthodox Jewish Adass Israel school in Melbourne, has been found guilty of sexually abusing two former students.

The Conversation

Kentucky Attorney General's office announces nearly $220K in grants for child advocacy centers

Thursday, Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s office announced nearly $220,000 in grants for child sexual abuse prevention efforts around the state. Heather Wagers is the executive director of the A-Gs Office of Trafficking and Abuse Prevention and Prosecution.

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Grooming gangs don’t just come ‘from one ethnic background’, Tories warned

‘Vast majority of sexual abuse cases do not involve ethnic minorities’, says Keir Starmer

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Rishi Sunak pledges to end ‘political correctness’ over grooming gangs

The Prime Minister was warned against focusing on race as Labour said the ‘vast majority’ of sexual abuse cases do not involve ethnic minorities.

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Rishi Sunak refuses to back Braverman’s widely criticised claim about racial nature of grooming gangs – as it happened

Prime minister says offenders have been protected by ‘political correctness’ as he announces ‘grooming gangs taskforce’

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to visit Greater Manchester today

The PM is launching a new taskforce to tackle child grooming gangs

Manchester Evening News

NSPCC warns against framing grooming gangs problem as ethnicity-based

Sir Peter Wanless welcomes creation of taskforce but says ‘there must be a focus on more than just race’

The Guardian - UK

Sunak announces grooming gang crackdown as Tories accused of ‘dog whistle’ politics

Government wants ethnicity data to be used by new police taskforce

The Independent UK

Victorian court upholds ruling finding Catholic church liable for sexual abuse by paedophile priest

Landmark decision expected to help countless other survivors achieve more compensation for abuse suffered from clergy

The Guardian - AU

Child abuse is ‘disturbingly prevalent’ across nation

The physical, emotional and sexual abuse of children is "disturbingly prevalent" across the nation with long-term impacts on victims through life,

The New Daily

Disturbing scale of child abuse delivers 'wake-up call'

One in three Australian children suffer physical abuse while one in four suffer sexual abuse, according to a new nationwide study.

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The Independent UK

‘Political correctness’ will not stop crackdown on grooming gangs, says PM

Ministers are promising tougher sentences and new support for local forces to protect children from abuse.

The Conversation

Major study reveals two-thirds of people who suffer childhood maltreatment suffer more than one kind

The following story deals with reports of childhood maltreatment, including neglect and physical and sexual abuse.

Wales Online

New police taskforce to tackle grooming gangs using 'ethnicity data', says PM

Ministers will argue that using ethnicity data is necessary to ensure “cultural sensitivities” are not used to prevent criminals being caught

The Independent UK

Sunak promises crackdown on grooming gangs with new police taskforce

The Prime Minister will travel to northern England on Monday to announce the measures.

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Home Secretary accused of 'parroting far-right myths' about British Pakistani men

Suella Braverman blamed 'political correctness' for authorities failing to tackle grooming gangs during a media round on Sunday morning.

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman claims Labour councils’ ‘political correctness’ failed to stop grooming gangs

Labour councillors failed to act because of ‘not wanting to come across as racist’, says home secretary

The Independent UK

Braverman: Child sex abuse reporting duty will overcome ‘political correctness’

The Government is expected to set out on Monday details of a plan to tackle grooming gangs and better protect children.

Wales Online

Braverman ‘committed’ to legal reporting requirement on child sex abuse

Details of plans to tackle grooming gangs will be set out by the Government in the coming days

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman to make reporting sex abuse mandatory for those working with children

In October 2022, the seven-year Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published damning evidence from a total of 725 witnesses

The Independent UK

Legal reporting requirement on child sex abuse needed, says Braverman

The Government is expected to set out details of plans in the coming days to tackle grooming gangs and better protect children.

The Independent UK

James Norton describes going to ‘disturbing places’ for A Little Life role

In West End production, ‘Happy Valley’ star plays a deeply troubled lawyer who has been subjected to years of sexual abuse

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