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‘Simply not good enough’: Child safeguarding expert urges police and other bodies to back up anti-racism pledges with evidence

Jim Gamble says organisations need to ‘evidence what they have done and who they have challenged’

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

The Child Q scandal sparked protests in Hackney.

Child Q: Officers who strip-searched Black teenager now being investigated for gross misconduct

The Independent Office for Police Conduct says it has ‘uplifted the level of its investigation’

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

The Child Q scandal sparked protests in Hackney.

Child Q: Metropolitan Police ‘taking racism claim very seriously’, says assistant commissioner

Louisa Rolfe, tipped as a possible successor to Cressida Dick, says Met accepts findings of safeguarding review

Author: Hackney Citizen

Child Q: Metropolitan Police ‘taking racism claim very seriously’, says assistant commissioner

Leader – Foster care sex child abuse scandal demands policy review

Rape and sexual assault of five girls by foster carer could have been prevented

Author: Hackney Citizen

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NSPCC criticises police over Hackney foster care child sex abuse

Children’s charity weighs in as pressure mounts for police review

Author: Adam Barnett

NSPCC criticises police over Hackney foster care child sex abuse

Foster care child sex abuse could happen again, warns Hackney safeguarding chief

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

Author: Adam Barnett

Risk: Five schoolgirls were abused in foster care