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We must recognise that while men make up only a small proportion of childcare workers, they are responsible for the majority of child sexual abuse cases within them.

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The outraged mother was astonished to be told by her local council who fund specialist help for deaf children that private schoolchildren had 'opted out' of it because of their choice of school.