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• Headteachers attack new child protection rules

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Private and state school leaders, united in rare alliance, say rules will stop language exchange programmes and discourage parents from helping out at schools Jessica Shepherd Teachers leaders representing almost 45,000 schools have written to the government to object to new child protection rules they say will ...
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• Canada: bogus forensics took woman’s son, sent her to jail

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 633
  Testimony by now-disgraced forensic pathologist Charles Smith sent Sherry Sherret-Robinson to jail for a year on charges of infanticide, and resulted in the permanent loss of her other child. Ontario’s highest court has cleared her, but it is rather late. [ Jonathan Turley via Radley Balko ; Wikipedia on Charles ...
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• Social cost of unhappiness

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Your news item on The Young Foundation report ( Millions of Britons unhappy and lonely despite improved welfare state, report says , 7 December) gets right to the heart of many of the problems that affect large swaths of society. Unhappiness and loneliness create emotionally bereft and isolated communities, and ...
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• Doctor who raised concerns about hospital in Baby P case was taken seriously

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Kim Holt, a consultant paediatrician, had said Baby Peter could have been saved if worries had been listened to A senior doctor who claimed that Baby P could have been saved if concerns about a hospital had been listened to was "taken seriously", according to a report published today. The youngster was seen at St ...
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• Zip it, block it, flag it: code for online safety

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Children from five will be taught how to steer clear of bullies and paedophiles online Children will be taught to "zip it, block it and flag it," under a new code for internet safety to be taught in every primary school in England from the age of five. For the first time, web safety skills will be a compulsory part ...
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• Online safety lessons for five-year-olds

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Children will be taught how to avoid paedophiles and cyberbullies as part of new government internet strategy School pupils as young as five will be taught how to stay safe on the internet, under new government plans unveiled today. Ministers want online safety to become a compulsory part of the curriculum from ...
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• Children’s Commission In India Take Effective Steps To Combat Child Labor

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 535
  Nilanjana Bhowmick - AHN India Correspondent New Delhi (AHN) - The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has been taking various steps to combat the menace of child labor, Indias minister for women and child development, Krishna Tirath said recently. The Commission has not only been playing an ...
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• Police seek public help in tracing child sex offenders

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Unconnected pair added to national most wanted website in hope of tracking them down Police urged the public to help them trace two paedophiles today. Jason Waller, 33, from Plymouth, and Dean Barnes, 48, from Merseyside, have failed to notify police of their movements and have eluded investigators for many months. ...
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• Orgasm, swearing in Christmas play for Kiwi foster kids

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Melbourne, Dec 7 (ANI): Kiwi foster kids got a big dose of swearing and sex talk during a risque Christmas play that had been put on by the country’s child protection agency.New Zealand’s Child, Youth and Family service has been batting off criticism ever since it arranged the theatre performance for 130 ...
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• Justice for Families News December 2009: John Hemming

  
  ME agenda — Authority: 426
  Update from John Hemming, MP (Justice for Families) Shortlink: http://wp.me/p5foE-2tc Justice for Families News December 2009 05 December 2009 Apologies for the infrequent newsletters. In some senses we are making more progress in terms of getting systematic change. There have been a lot of media ...
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• New Child Pornography Legislation Criticized: Burdensome, Infringes Privacy and Ineffectual

  
  IP Osgoode — Authority: 470
  Brandon Evenson is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.On Tuesday, November 24th, the federal government tabled legislation mandating all ISPs to report child pornography. Bill C-58 requires that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) report the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Internet Protocol (IP) address where ...
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• December 4 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 633
  Insurance mandate or no, New Jersey specialists tending to duck out of high-legal-risk procedures like mammography [ Amy Handlin, Gloucester County Times via NJLRA ] Audi redux, or something different this time? L.A. Times endorses charges of sudden acceleration against Toyota [ Holman Jenkins/WSJ , FindLaw ...
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• Over-reliance on Criminal Records Bureau checks in employment process

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Criminal Records Bureau checks are over relied upon by organisations checking whether job applicants are suitable to work with children, a safeguarding organisation has warned.
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• No one likes us social workers. We care | Julia Slater

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Ed Balls is right to want to improve the status of social workers. We have long been unappreciated People have never liked social workers. In 1969, when first mentioned I was thinking of being a social worker, the response was not encouraging. Friends would look at me suspiciously, and not say much, except for edgy ...
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• Sisters of Mercy to compensate child abuse victims

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Irish order of Roman Catholic nuns offers £117m after inquiry uncovers endemic rape and cruelty in its institutions A major Irish order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Mercy, today offered to pay child abuse victims, the government and charities a further €128m (£117m) to compensate for decades of abuse ...
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• The Latest in the Rifqa Bary Case

  
  The Volokh Conspiracy — Authority: 776
  This is the case I blogged about a few months ago , in which a 17-year-old girl from a Muslim family ran away from home, claiming her father had threatened to “hurt her, kill her or send her back to Sri Lanka” because she had converted to Christianity. A police investigation apparently concluded that the ...
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• Baby P emails: judge demands explanation from Ofsted

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Newly disclosed court documents suggest Ofsted inspectors who wrote a damning report on Haringey childrens services were ordered to delete emails relating to Baby Peter and the council, a high court judge disclosed today. Mr Justice Foskett demanded an urgent explanation of a handwritten note found among hundreds of ...
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• Father jailed for five years on 16 counts of child abuse

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Terence Eames kept children prisoner in their rooms, often with no food or toilet facilities A father who was found guilty of a string of cruelty charges against his children was jailed for five years today. Terrence Eames, 53, was sentenced at Derby crown court after being found guilty of 16 counts of child cruelty ...
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• Major social work reform announced

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Government accepts proposals to reform pay and improve calibre of new recruits The government hinted that more funding may be made available to transform social work as it announced a raft of measures today to improve standards and morale in a beleaguered profession knocked by widespread public criticism. Guidelines ...
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• Canadian Government Introduces Mandatory Child Porn Reporting Law

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 138
  CA – Government Introduces Mandatory Child Porn Reporting Law : “(Micheal geist) The Justice Minister has tabled the Child Protection Act (Online Sexual Exploitation) . Bill C-58 creates a mandatory disclosure requirement on Internet providers where they become aware of child pornography websites or have reason ...
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