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Pupils from Sacred Heart Wigan receive their certificate from the Mayor, Cllr Anne Collins

Local schools and colleges praised for wellbeing work

Jay Shaw and Katie Vernon's custody pictures. They are now both behind bars for child sexual offences

Vile child sex abuse couple sent to prison

CLASS ACT - St John's Primary School, Hindley Green.

Hindley Green St John's Primary: Class Act

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities figures show 84 per cent of 3,037 children aged between two and two-and-a-half in Wigan reached the expected standard when they were assessed across five key development areas

Many toddlers' lives are getting off to a bad developmental start

Santa’s Smashed Burger makes an appearance on the festive menu

Don't miss limited-edition Santa’s Smashed Burger this festive season

Leeds United lends support to NSPCC festive fun at Roundhay Park with Santa, Geordie Shore star and DJ Schak.

Leeds United lends support to NSPCC festive fun

The NSPCC sees a surge in concerns about children experiencing domestic abuse.

The NSPCC sees a surge in concerns about children experiencing domestic abuse

The new Christmas menu even features festive cocktails

Festive treats galore as TGI Fridays launches a special Christmas menu

Team Jamaica weightlifting Olympian Chloe Whylie.

Olympians and leading organisations celebrate NSPCC sports safeguarding campaign

NSPCC art competition to help schoolchildren Talk PANTS.

NSPCC art competition to help schoolchildren Talk PANTS

Lidl launches ‘Mystery Box’ worth over £100 - in partnership with NSPCC (Photo: Adobe Stock / We Are The Romans)

Lidl launches ‘Mystery Box’ stuffed with middle aisle items

An evening with This Is England star Thomas Turgoose raises £7,000 for the NSPCC.

An evening with This Is England star Thomas Turgoose raises £7,000 for the NSPCC

NSPCC celebrates Talk PANTS Week as part of national campaign to prevent children from abuse.

NSPCC's national campaign to prevent children from abuse

Huge changes are coming to WhatsApp messenger app

WhatsApp now allows users to hide intimate chats - how it works

The number of extreme sexual abuse content towards children online has doubled since 2020

Breaking How to keep children safe online amidst growing online sexual abuse

Britain's astronaut Tim Peake gestures as his space suit is tested at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome (photo: Getty Images)

First News: Peake viewing as Tim Peake hosts brand new space programme Nigel Booth

FIFA World Cup 2022: Children at greater risk of domestic abuse

The 'Big Help Project' is being promoted by Latics this season

Latics showing there is an alternative to scourge of betting sponsorship

Kym Marsh

How you can win Wigan star Kym Marsh's wedding dress

Self-harming among children is on the increase

Rise in child self-harming cases

Two thirds of adults believe physical punishment of children is wrong

Majority of adults now think it is wrong to punish a child physically

Makerfield MP Yvonne Fovargue

Yvonne Fovargue MP: Huge contribution made by apprentices

Tributes left outside the home of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes in Solihull

Figures show hundreds of child cruelty offences during first year of pandemic

Michelle Keegan and Joseph Gilgun star in Brassic. A charity auction in aid of the NSPCC is offering the bidders the chance of a walk-on role in the hit comedy-drama.

Bid for a walk-on role in hit TV show

The tool originally was piloted early last year (Photo: Shutterstock)

Young people can report and remove nude images of themselves online using new to...

Young children are struggling with their mental health

Huge increase in young children’s counselling during pandemic

Almost two-thirds of parents of under-fives have felt they are letting their children down or are inadequate as parents during the latest lockdown

Public urged to do a #LittleGoodDeed to help struggling parents
Almost two-thirds of parents of under-fives have felt they are letting their children down or are inadequate as parents during the latest lockdown, polling suggests.
Iain Lynn

People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador Judie McCourt

Christmas Eve joy as neighbours on a Wigan street win lottery cash

Join Leona Lewis at a virtual concert in aid of Childline

Deliveroo rider Abdelziz Abdou

Deliveroo riders to receive NSPCC training to help spot signs of child abuse

Calls to NSPCC Cymru have "surged" during the coronavirus lockdown (Shutterstock)

Calls to child abuse helpline have 'soared' during coronavirus lockdown - these ...

Here’s how to keep kids safe online - according to new government guidelines

Childline has seen a dramatic increase in calls

Childline sees a huge spike in pleas for help

Most of the people seeking help were teenagers

Plan to help young people with suicidal thoughts

Google has admitted to sending more than 100,000 private user videos to stranger...

Facebook to allow parents to monitor their kids' chat messages

Half of British 10-year-olds use smartphones - and 24% of 3 and 4-year-olds have...

Some 87 per cent of UK primary schools have welcomed the NSPCCs free programme

Child safety crusade call to Wigan schools

Parents have said that children as young as 10 can be left home alone (Photo: Shutterstock)

Nearly half of parents would leave kids under 12 home alone, poll finds

Parents differ on how old children can be before they are able to babysit younger siblings (Photo: Shutterstock)

Poll: When is it acceptable to leave your children home alone?

Nearly 2,000 children were being looked after by Lancashire County Council

Number of children in care in Lancashire are on the rise

A teen mum. Stock image

'˜Sexting' credited with cutting teen pregnancy in Wigan

Thomas, left, and Alan Fowler

Wigan brothers jailed for sexually abusing children over 17 year period

Child sexual exploitation charity calls on public to know the signs of abuse

A parent's guide to keeping kids safe on social media

Winnie the pooh

COLUMN: Why are we all so horrid?

Garth Gatland, 39, of Austin Drive, Cambridge, was convicted of two counts of child cruelty at an earlier trial and was sentenced at Cambridge Crown Court on Tuesday,

Man who waterboarded girl, six, jailed for 12 years

There has been a sharp rise in the number of counselling sessions for 16-18-year-olds

Exam worries lead to increasing numbers of young people looking for help

Picture posed by models

School sexual misconduct rates exposed

The petition gathered almost 9,000 signatures demanding that Missguided remove the sign

'Send me nudes' sign at Missguided store prompts thousands to sign petition

Worrying rise in '˜home alone' cases

The NSPCC said it received more than 1,200 calls and emails last summer about children being left unattended - up around a third on the previous year.

Shocking figures show sharp increase of reports of children left home alone

Counsellors said they had run more than 2,500 sessions in the last three years

Children seeking counselling after being branded 'terrorists'

Are social media companies failing our kids?

Four in five kids feel social media companies are failing to protect them

Parental controls can keep your child safe and feeling less lonely

Pressures on teenagers are making them lonely

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