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Police arrest PE teacher, admin officer of Coimbatore school for molesting girl students. Duo accused of touching students with wrong intentions, giving punishments to those who resisted. Police registered case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Court remanded them in judicial custody, sent to Coimbatore Central Prison.

Girls aged as young as seven report strangers had messaged them while playing games online

Childline gets a spike in calls from worried pupils before a new school year stars – here’s how to support them

Childline gets a spike in calls from worried pupils before a new school year stars. Here’s how to support them, writes Lisa Salmon.

The Strictly Come Dancing judge also praised presenter Kate Garraway for her kindness when she interviewed him for her Life Stories series

The charity said some forms of abuse, such as coercive control, can sometimes be overlooked or minimised.

The Children’s Commissioner for England said the NHS figures were ‘worrying’.

Two men were arrested in Malappuram for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old girl. The victim's brother and a relative were the accused. A complaint by Childline led to the registration of a case and the girl was shifted to a shelter home.

Dame Esther Rantzen was diagnosed with lung cancer at the start of the year, which had spread into her armpit. It has since deteriorated but pal Angela Rippon says she's remaining upbeat