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• Archbishop of York ‘deeply ashamed’ by church’s handling of abuse allegations

  22 Oct 2014: John Sentamu’s comments come as report finds ‘systemic failures’ by church over claims about former dean of Manchester

• Child abuse inquiry: Woolf pressed to quit over ‘dinner parties with Brittan’

  22 Oct 2014: Abuse victims demand her resignation after it emerged that Tory peer, who was home secretary when abuse dossier went missing, is a neighbour

• Luke Batty death: police shortfalls may have hindered father's arrest

  22 Oct 2014:

  Inquest into 11-year-old's death hears poor police communication and lags in computer database system meant Greg Anderson may have slipped through the cracks

• Perth art school denies censoring students’ paintings

  22 Oct 2014: John Curtin College of the Arts claims one painting depicted a naked underage student and was removed from exhibition for legal reasons

• Rosie Batty: victims of family violence are terrified to stand up to their abuser

  22 Oct 2014:

  ‘Look where it got me,’ mother of Luke Batty tells inquest into the 11-year-old’s killing at the hands of his estranged father

• Girl, 5, raped and flogged for being late for dinner at foster home, inquiry told

  22 Oct 2014: State of NSW resisted accepting liability for abuse at Bethcar children’s home despite one manager being jailed for 30 years

• Fiona Woolf urged to step down from abuse inquiry over Leon Brittan links

  21 Oct 2014: Lawyer who replaced Butler-Sloss in official inquiry into alleged paedophile politicians says ‘no close association’ with Tory peer

• Medical board investigates radiologist Max Mehta, wanted on US grooming charge

  21 Oct 2014: Mehta, who fled US and has been working in Victoria, has agreed not to practise until Medical Board of Australia has investigated him

• ‘Some paedophiles will never face justice’ – National Crime Agency chief

  20 Oct 2014: Law-enforcement agencies must focus on the greatest risk and tackle those people, says NCA director Keith Bristow

• Radical thinking to break cycle of repeat children taken into care

  20 Oct 2014: We are extending funding and working with local authorities to get the children’s social care system out of a rut

• Project for women with repeat children taken into care gains £3m boost

  20 Oct 2014: Three-quarters of the women in the Pause project in Hackney have had more than four children removed into care

• Britain faces future divided by rich and poor, poverty commission warns

  20 Oct 2014: Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission report predicts number of households in absolute poverty will rise by one third this decade

• Inquiries continue two years after UK given list of suspected paedophiles

  20 Oct 2014: Police chiefs have faced criticism for failing to act quickly enough on information garnered from sting operation

• Sins of the fathers: sexual abuse at a Catholic order

  19 Oct 2014: Eleven men who trained for the priesthood at a Yorkshire seminary have recently settled their claims of sexual abuse with the Catholic order that ran it. In the latest in our series on boarding-school abuse, Catherine Deveney hears of their decades-long struggle for justice and the damage done

• Catholic missionary compensates 11 former trainee priests

  19 Oct 2014: Payouts follow allegations of widespread sexual abuse at St Peter Claver College in Yorkshire in the 1960s and 70s

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