#safeguarding

#safeguarding

"The loneliness of dealing with an alcoholic parent is very severe,"

The disciplinary inquiry was launched by Manchester city council, where Binks was then assistant chief executive, last summer after complaints by young female employees about sleazy and creepy behaviour on a night out last November. Binks took over as chief executive in Rochdale in April. The investigation by the law firm Weightmans LLP upheld a complaint that Binks had inappropriately touched and grinded on a junior female employee at Manchester council in a city centre bar.

More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK alone to claim asylum disappeared from social services' care last year, according to freedom of information data shared with the Guardian. The authors of a report, Until Harm Ends, submitted FoI requests to children's services departments in councils across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland asking for information about trafficked children and those who arrived alone in the UK and claimed asylum, who then went missing after being taken into care.

As a mum, it was heartbreaking to see. The impact has left him emotionally distant, unable to trust, and a shadow of the vibrant person he once was. For years, we pleaded with the council to do more to help our son, only to feel ignored, dismissed, and gaslit. Only once we consulted lawyers did we realise just how poorly the local authority's conduct and inaction had been.

The 13-year-old had a curiosity for war memorabilia and the Nazi dictator, a fascination with weapons and claimed to speak German and Russian. After she was found with a knife at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, a referral to the government's anti-terror scheme was discussed but not pursued. The girl later armed herself with her father's multi-tool and attacked two teachers, Fiona Elias and Liz Hopkin, and a pupil in April last year. After her arrest, she told police:

Senior coroner Graeme Irvine said, 'It seems to me that your brother's death was tragic and it was a horrible, horrible death.'