Alarmingly, in the UK rising numbers of teens have been trying to commit suicide or actually carrying it out in the past year. Every one of these cases is a desperately sad tale that needs to be told, so we can try to understand the reasons why young people take their own lives. Furthermore,...
Seeking the truth for victim and accused through independent examination of the available facts is still the way to go and the public will support it.
Ending the Sex Trade: What we can Learn from Sweden
10th Oct 2015
Payment for sex should be decriminalised, with exiting services provided to people exploited through prostitution; paying for sex should be criminalised.
I have argued ceaselessly during the past decade about how vital it is to use partnership information to make better and earlier decisions concerning the identification of need, harm and risk to children and vulnerable adults. But this has to be within the law – and the rights of every...
Children Affected by Domestic Abuse
13th Jul 2015
All families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina This quote from Tolstoy is a timely – and timeless – reminder of how much grief and unhappiness exists behind the closed doors of the family home. Across the UK there are countless...
How to Combat the Online Radicalisation of Young People
13th Jul 2015
When three teenage girls flew to Syria to join Islamic State earlier this year, there was a lot of soul searching across the UK. Newspapers claimed Britain was losing the battle to stop extremists radicalising young people online through chat rooms and social media networks. Former government minister Lady Warsi...
Joining the Dots: Sexual Violence, Gangs and Sexting
13th Jul 2015
When I read a BBC article about Violence against Women recently I was alarmed about the increase in prosecutions in 2014/2015. It said that A Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) report in June 2015 showed more than 107,000 prosecutions in the year to April. An increase of 16,000 (18%) on the previous year....