Disgraced teachers behind bars

With a rise in teachers being banned from the profession for sexual misconduct with students, Closer speaks to one mum whose son was taken advantage of and looks at how we can reduce the stigma for male victims…

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse

Nobody wants a brothel on their doorstep, but recognising prostitution as work could protect women, says Michelle Hather

At the age of nine, Terri White fled from violence to a woman’s refuge. Today, she talks to Jess Phillips , Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls

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How do we deal with historical abuse? Q My 29-year-old daughter disclosed when she was 18 that she was abused by our nephew when she was five and he was 12. My husband says he was a boy experimenting