ChildLine founder Dame Esther Rantzen has called for more volunteers to help the charity during a celebratory visit to the organisation’s Manchester base today.

Britain has a ‘victim blaming culture’ and a judge’s claims that a schoolgirl ‘groomed’ her teacher into having sex only makes it worse, says a leading child sex abuse charity chief.

Incestuous attacks on children have soared by 72% in Greater Manchester over the last three years – reaching a four year high.

Figures released today reveal 396 children contacted the city’s ChildLine call centre, during the Christmas season last year

FGM is the practice of ritual removal of some or all of the female external genitalia, and is typically conducted by a traditional circumciser using a blade or razor, with or without anaesthesia

Esther Rantzen CBE was joined by basketball legend John Amaechi OBE at the launch of a £1million appeal for ChildLine’s latest service which aims to join forces with 980 Greater Manchester schools

A Salford student nurse who spent his childhood in care has raised almost £2,000 for the NSPCC – after taking on a series of the most gruelling obstacle courses in the country.

Withington-based teacher and artist Juliette Hamilton only branched out into willow sculptures four years ago.

The figures show there were more than 8000 cases of young people allegedly abusing children across the UK since 2012.

Confidential documents examining the extent of ex-BBC presenter Savile’s offending – spanning from the mid-1940s to as recently as 2007 – uncovered that the majority of his alleged victims were between 13-15.

Manchester has seen the number of child emotional abuse cases surge by half in the last four years, claims the NSPCC.