March 05, 2021
Internet safety is especially important with the vast majority of children spending a considerable amount of ‘school time’ online over the last year
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January 13, 2021
Stephen Scholes is now part of a third set of criminal proceedings after more people have come forward and disclosed they were abused by him
December 15, 2020
I recently spoke to Sky News as part of an in-depth feature “The Unseen Victims of Abuse”, which focused on the activities of grooming gangs in the UK. Much of the report was filmed near our offices in West Yorkshire but as the report explains, abuse is happening right across the UK.
December 14, 2020
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published its report into the abuse of children in the care of the Nottinghamshire Councils in July 2019.
November 04, 2020
Greater Manchester Police have announced that they have arrested 3 men in relation to sex and drugs offences against children as part of Operation Green Jacket, a large police investigation into child sexual exploitation (“CSE”) in the city.
October 28, 2020
In 2016 David Greenwood wrote about Jack Mount, who was facing over 50 charges relating to sex offences against children. The trial, which was due to commence in June 2016, was unable to go ahead due to Jack Mount’s ill health. The Court deemed him unfit to stand trial.
October 21, 2020
A further 15 men have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into historic child abuse offences in Rotherham, Operation Stovewood, which is being headed by the National Crime Agency.
October 21, 2020
In July 2019 after 7 weeks of hearings, countless witnesses and tens of thousands of pages of evidence the IICSA Anglican hearings came to an end. At that point all those following closely knew what had gone wrong and why.