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Against Child Abuse says figures in line with Social Welfare Department child abuse figures, suggests increased public awareness may account for bigger numbers.

New data designed to help drive efforts to tackle industry's food waste mountain

The Himachal Pradesh High Court recently held that the failure to report crimes under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) is a bailable offence.

An Arizona Superior Court judge ruled church officials who knew a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse.

An Arizona judge has granted a motion by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for summary judgment and dismissed a negligence complaint against the church in a child sex abuse case. The lawsuit, filed in 2021, accused the church and local church leaders of negligence and civil conspiracy in relation to a child sexual abuse case involving a father abusing his two daughters over several years. In the ruling issued Friday, the Cochise County Superior Court found that “Church Def...

Eunice Lam The SAR administration is inviting stakeholders to share cases or questions regarding its plan to introduce a bill on the mandato...

The Cruise Vessel Safety & Security Act (CVSSA) of 2010 requires cruise ships calling on U.S. port to report certain shipboard crimes to the Federal

A prestigious $40,000 a year girls school is pressing ahead with a fabulous $245 a head party just two weeks after a teacher died in shocking circumstances.

Students at an elite Melbourne girls school have detailed a catalogue of inappropriate behaviour by a teacher who died suddenly after a child safety complaint.

The educator at Melbourne Girls Grammar, in South Yarra, where the fee for students is about $40,000-a-year, was the subject of mandatory reporting and child safety procedures.