Children's services failings raised in 2005
Two reports warned of problems with a council’s child protection services years before serious failings were made public.
Ed Balls, the children’s secretary, sent in a new management team at Doncaster’s children’s services last month after a controversy centred on the deaths of seven children.
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Woman convicted of cruelty to boy she adopted
A single woman who was among the first in Britain to be allowed to adopt has been convicted of cruelty to the boy whom she took in as her son.
A court was told that the 43-year-old subjected the child, who came from a troubled background, to four years of physical abuse after her calls for help went unheeded
Knightley, rarely seen on- or off-screen as anything other than polished and glamorous, is attacked by her partner in the disturbing two-minute commercial, made by Joe Wright, who directed the star in the films Atonement and Pride and Prejudice.
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