Significant fall in child protection enquiries of ‘particular concern’, says council
Head of safeguarding says drop largely down to fall in referrals from schools, with children ‘less visible to professionals’ during lockdown
child abuse
Jailed: retired Stoke Newington vicar who abused choirboy
Cyril Ashton Rowe sentenced to four years in prison for crimes committed in 1970s and 1980s
Number of Hackney children ‘in need’ rises by almost a third
Over one thousand children at risk of abuse or neglect at home, new figures also show
Leader – Foster care sex child abuse scandal demands policy review
Rape and sexual assault of five girls by foster carer could have been prevented
Foster care child sex abuse could happen again, warns Hackney safeguarding chief
‘Huge risk’ of further sexual abuse, as police body rules out policy review