The Home Office has drawn up a shortlist of candidates to chair an inquiry into claims of historical child sex abuse in the 1980s. The Times reports that Home Secretary Theresa May is under pressure to find a replacement for Baroness Butler-Sloss, who resigned from the position last month following concerns about her being the sister of Sir Michael Havers, who was the Conservative attorney-general at the time of the alleged abuse.
Children as young as 10 have been referred to the NSPCC after committing sex attacks on other youngsters in Coventry. The Coventry Telegraph reports that about 40 youngsters in the city have been referred to the charity in the past 12 months for a variety of serious sexual offences. The NSPCC said easy access to hardcore pornography is partly to blame.
The number of children having CT scans in the UK has risen sharply, prompting concerns about radiation risks. The BBC reports that the number of scans on children – who are most at risk of radiation – doubled over the past decade to 100,000 a year in 2012.
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