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Significant fall in child protection enquiries of ‘particular concern’, says council

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 21 May 2020 at 18:20

Sunday's best: Licensing committee considers Hoppers' bid for longer opening hours

Head of safeguarding says drop largely down to fall in referrals from schools, with children ‘less visible to professionals’ during lockdown

Jailed: retired Stoke Newington vicar who abused choirboy

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 10 March 2017 at 18:38

St Matthias Church in Stoke Newington

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

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 6 April 2016 at 12:43

Photograph: Tom Hull

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

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 5 March 2016 at 09:11

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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

By Adam Barnett | Tuesday 1 March 2016 at 13:48

Risk: Five schoolgirls were abused in foster care

‘Huge risk’ of further sexual abuse, as police body rules out policy review