The year that has just passed was a significant one for child protection and with the beginning of a new one it seems an appropriate time to reflect on the challenges we must continue to address in ...

The Special Rapporteur on Child Protection has warned an Oireachtas committee of "persisting significant and grave concerns regarding child protection". Caoilfhionn Gallagher, KC, said that there is ...

In a world where child abuse and exploitation persist as urgent, and yet often an unspoken crises, the role of creative expression in amplifying silent voices has never been more vital. Child ...

“I don’t make this choice lightly, but I can’t live like this. There is somebody going to be murdered.” These are the words of a desperate father to a judge seeking interim barring orders against two ...

The Special Rapporteur on Child Protection has said Ireland now has "generational opportunities" to address welfare and protection issues for young people, but that the government needs to learn the ...

Ten child protection organisations have written an urgent letter to the home secretary expressing concern about the omission of child sexual abuse from the government's violence against women and ...

Reviews of serious cases are “silent” about the role of racial bias in child protection decision making, safeguarding experts have found. Case inquiries relating to black, Asian or mixed heritage ...

A family member of a 13-year-old Tasmanian boy repeatedly urged the child protection department to act, warning the child was homeless, taking drugs and dealing them. She wants the department to ...

Sextortion is a digital crime in which an individual (often a predator) threatens to share intimate images, videos, or messages of a victim unless a demand — be it monetary compensation, additional ...

At an inquest last year, the SA coroner recommended the Department for Child Protection scrap the practice of marking cases as "closed no action", which occurs when there are not enough resources to ...

The intergovernmental fiscal transfers and state-specific targeted programmes for children in need of care and protection and children in conflict of law are evaluated using the Organisation for ...

A former case manager with the Division of Child Protection and Permanency was sentenced to prison for possession and transporting child sexual abuse material, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s ...