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by Lamiat Sabin
Parliamentary reporter
CHARITIES are calling on peers to make councils legally obliged to provide counselling for children affected by domestic abuse during coronavirus lockdowns.
Phone calls made by adults worried about children’s welfare to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children’s (NSPCC) helpline have risen 50 per cent during the pandemic, the charity has said.
It comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned that the government is a “long, long, long way” from being able to lift lockdown restrictions in England.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
AMANDA J QUICK warns about the ever-expanding influence of the sex industry – and the harm it unleashes on both the women involved and society collectively, especially the young