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A Cochrane review found school-based child sexual abuse prevention programs were moderately effective in arming children with knowledge and skills that may decrease the likelihood that they will be harmed.
Accusations of historical child abuse against the powerful are mounting. Is a trial by media about to kick into full gear?
The health service has a long history both of abuse and the failure to do anything about it.
The report on Jimmy Savile’s abuses in the NHS is eerily reminiscent of a 90-year-old case.
Speaking with: Tim Jones on child sexual abuse within religious institutions
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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse reconvened this week. Announced in 2012, the commission was established due to growing concerns over consistently inadequate responses…
The home secretary, Theresa May, has announced a series of major developments in the beleaguered and faltering historical child abuse inquiry – the investigation into claims that political figures, and…
In recent months, the UK has been gripped by cases of widespread organised child abuse – in Rotherham, Oxford, Rochdale and even Westminster. The police’s slow and incompetent reactions (and even complicity…
The Home Office’s planned inquiry into child sexual abuse across all areas of British public life has had a troubled start to say the least. While its panel has at last begun to meet and hear evidence…
In 1998, the new directors of the Aborigines Inland Mission changed its name to Australian Indigenous Ministries. They cleaned out the cupboards and placed the archive they had inherited, starting with…
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Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor & Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Supervisor in Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Huddersfield
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds
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Professor of English Language & Applied Linguistics, Swansea University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice | Co-leader of the Sexual Violence Research and Prevention Unit (SVRPU), University of the Sunshine Coast
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Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Chair of Clinical Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Swansea University
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Deputy Director, ACU Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Forensic Psychology & Director of the Centre of Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement (COPE), Nottingham Trent University
