National domestic abuse charity, SafeLives, announces extensive new research on the number of children growing up in abusive households, and the experiences of those children. SafeLives estimates that as children start primary school, there will be at least one child in every classroom who has lived with domestic abuse since they were born.
NSPCC released new booklet on how to work together to protect children.
An inter-departmental ministerial group on human trafficking acknowledge need to improve training of frontline staff