MPs have warned that hundreds of runaway children are at risk of being sexually exploited at railway stations. A new report by the transport select committee shows that more than 700 children were found at railway stations in London between April 2012 and August 2013.
Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, is visiting Downing Street today to hand in a petition calling for every region in England and Wales to have a remote site where child abuse victims can give evidence away from court. The Order in Court petition has received 21,000 signatures.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been quizzed about his free school meals programme by a nine-year-old boy who told him they are “unhealthy” and “very expensive”. The Telegraph reports that Clegg was left “squirming” by the confrontation and suggested the boy “go back to class”.
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