A Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry helpline has been launched by the NSPCC, with a team of trained counsellors available to provide support for survivors of abuse. The charity’s chief executive Peter Wanless said: “Many of them will have harrowing stories to tell so we want to make what could be a tortuous journey as easy as possible.”
A £7m Birmingham free school is to go into special measures following a highly critical Ofsted report. The BBC reports teaching at Perry Beeches III was described as “inadequate” while the report also said too many students were underachieving.
More could have been done to help 17-year-old Kesia Leatherbarrow who committed suicide after being held in a police cell, a report has found. The Manchester Evening News reports a serious case review carried out by Tameside’s Safeguarding Children Board found a number of key errors were made in dealing with the young girl.
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