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Senior police officers are to publish guidance to schools and forces in England and Wales over how to deal with sexting, taking in a Home Office directive to avoid criminalising children who engage in the practice.
The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), which is working in partnership with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and the UK Council for Child Internet Safety, told MPs on Tuesday that it aimed to issue the guidance in time for the new school year.
The Duke of Cambridge has broken one of the last taboos. He has become the first member of the royal family to give an interview to a gay magazine.
Royal sources said even Princess Diana, an icon for the gay community, never granted any such publication the honour of an interview.
Prince William revealed on Tuesday that he will be appearing in the monthly publication, which comes out on Wednesday June 22.
New 'gender neutral' uniform rules will allow boys, so inclined, to wear skirts to school as schools must be more open to children questioning their gender identity.
I have listened to daft politically correct initiatives before but this one from a primary school headmaster who has - by his own admission - never himself come across a transgender child - capped the lot.
For the triumph of ignorance over evidence the transgender agenda ideologues cannot be beaten.
Finding Dory will feature Disney’s first transgender character, according to lead voice actor Ellen DeGeneres.
The openly gay TV chat show host, who voices blue tang fish Dory in the upcoming Finding Nemo sequel, told USA Today: “There’s a stingray that’s becoming sting-Rhonda, so there’s a trans sting in the movie.”
DeGeneres' revelation comes just weeks after the movie's trailer briefly showed two women with a baby, leading fans to suggest they were a lesbian couple.
According to German newspaper Zeit a number of refugees in Hamburg said they feel unsafe and fear for their safety because of their faith.
Dena Kasravi, a Christian convert from Iran, spent years attending illegal bible groups in her homeland but after making her way to Germany said she still lives in fear.
The 33-year-old said: "If they find out, I will be fair game. Everyone will have the right to destroy me. Some Muslims even think it is their obligation.
"I can’t get rid of the fear."
It comes as a disagreement emerged between ministers over whether term limits should be included in any move to liberalise abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.
Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar yesterday said that such term limits have to be part of any discussion about changing the law, but others expressed reservations about the workability of that proposal.
The abortion matter is set to dominate the agenda at Cabinet today, with ministers set to discuss how to deal with the damning judgment from the UN over Ireland’s restrictive abortion laws.
Ofsted has changed its account of why it failed to properly assess the safety of pupils at a school run by a conservative Muslim sect.
The education watchdog says it made a mistake in an earlier explanation about why it has withdrawn its report into safeguarding at the private Zakaria Muslim Girls' High School in Batley, West Yorkshire.
Up until a few weeks ago, my only interest in the Scottish government’s Named Person scheme was as the outraged parent of two young children. Last week, that all changed when I discovered that I am myself to become a Named Person.
The Named Person scheme is a compulsory provision within the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014. It means that every newborn child is allocated a ‘single point-of-contact’ state guardian until his or her 18th birthday. Drawn from health visitors and head teachers, Named Persons will be responsible for considering any concerns raised about a child’s wellbeing and whether or not to take action. And now, as a senior youth-work practitioner, I will soon be the Named Person responsible for the young people I work with who have left school but who are still under 18.
CALIFORNIA, America’s most populous state, became the fifth to sanction doctor-assisted suicide on June 9th. According to the End of Life Option Act, adult Californians of sound mind who have a terminal illness and less than six months to live are eligible to receive a prescription for a drug to bring about their deaths. The lethal dose is not quite as easy to procure as a course of antibiotics: the law requires patients to make a written request (verified by two witnesses and approved by two doctors) and to orally request the drugs twice, spaced out by at least 15 days. Doctors confer with the patients (reminding them not to take the drug while in public) and write the prescriptions; individuals wishing to hasten their deaths are obliged to ingest the drugs themselves. This means that patients who are unable to self-administer the medication are not eligible to receive a lethal dose of an “aid-in-dying” drug, whether or not they tell loved ones of their desire to end their lives before they become incapacitated.
A church-going teenager was "crucified" by four workmates in a catalogue of bullying which included being attacked with a lit aerosol because of his religious beliefs, a court heard.
Four men are on trial accused of religiously aggravated attacks on their work colleague, which they allegedly dismissed as "banter".
They are said to have allegedly mocked his Christian faith by tying him to a "crucifix" and having crosses daubed over his face and body.