Social Care

The proceedings can only now be reported in full following a successful Open Justice appeal by Byline Times

Do I really need to keep saying that this is where the personal is the political? writes Penny Pepper

A study released Thursday shows 22% of women who died during pregnancy or in the six weeks afterwards, were known to social services

A judge has ruled that Ampika Pickston's AP Care Homes Ltd has a 'very serious history of failure in a very short time'

Ampika Pickston's AP Care Homes Ltd has been barred for caring for children since late January and is now subject to a Care Standards Tribunal

AP Care Homes Ltd is run by reality TV star Ampika Pickston and was bankrolled by her fiance, West Ham co-owner David Sullivan

Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening

Part Two: The interconnectedness of far-right groups reflects the extent to which those holding extreme beliefs have used the issue of child sexual exploitation to further their own ends

Part Three: In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that 'group-based offenders are most commonly white'

Part Four: The far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by a lack of services with its own range of 'support' for survivors