The latest news items that should be right on your radar:

• Male child sex abuse survivors charity ‘struggling with demand’
• Guns kill 1,300 US children every year, study finds
• Sharp rise in suicides by gun among American children is found

The latest stories from child abuse inquiries around the world:

• First hearings in child abuse inquiry to get under way (Scotland)
• Civil claims of child sexual abuse against Greville Janner dropped (UK)
• Maori Party calls for inquiry into child abuse (New Zealand)

The latest headlines on child welfare:

• School holidays leave 3 million children at risk of hunger, report says
• Home Office stages U-turn on decision to reject London-born children of EU couple living in UK
• Smartphone app ‘tells parents when children are sexting’

The latest child welfare stories:

• Domestic abuse should be punished more severely than non-domestic, judges told
• More unmarried couples with children breaking up than married couples for first time
• Tory MP launches Private Members Bill to establish a presumption in favour of shared parenting, and enforcement of Child Arrangement Orders

The news that should be right on your radar:

• Dioceses lack ‘robust’ child protections
• Children in UK’s poorest areas 10 times more likely to go into care
• Theresa May’s welfare cuts will drive another million children into poverty, Institute for Fiscal Studies forecasts

The news items that should be right on your radar:

• Crime (Aggravated Murder of and Violence Against Women) Bill 2016-17 – Second reading on Friday, March 24th, 2017
• Inquiry Into Foster Care: Foster carers and other stakeholders asked about the foster care system
• Child On Parent Violence In The Context Of Adopted Children And Their Foster Carers

Friday’s Food for thought:

• What Northern Ireland’s child abuse inquiry reveals
• Pakistani child maid ‘tortured in judge’s house’
• The industrialised world is turning against circumcision

The latest child welfare news:

• Peer says Church is working to tackle child abuse (Further reading: Pontifical Commission For The Protection Of Minors)
• Football child abuse scandal: Number of claims tops 1,000
• Lord Janner’s Family want to be part of Child Abuse Inquiry

Things are a little busy for us at the moment so we hope you’ll forgive the brief post, but we thought we would add a few news items which are important this morning to keep you informed:

• Government refuses to allow Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry to include football abuse in its investigations – but do they have the right to refuse?
• Metropolitan police to investigate sexual abuse claims at London clubs
• Campaigners keep pushing for a child abuse inquiry in New Zealand
• Child abuse inquiry publishes testimonies of abuse in church settings

Important child welfare stories published this week:

• Child abuse inquiry judge: I will not give evidence
• Lord Chief Justice concerned by volume of public and private law cases before the Family Court
• More than 200,000 children growing up in poverty