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CTSI concerned over funeral scams targeting grieving families
Source: The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) published on this website Friday 13 June 2025
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) is warning the public about a disturbing scam where criminals exploit the grief of bereaved families by impersonating them online and charging mourners to attend funerals that should be free.
Fraudsters are scanning publicly available funera...
Read More..........Ipswich – Former religious teacher convicted of sexual offences
Source: Suffolk Police published on this website Thursday 12 June 2025 by Jill Powell
A 70-year-old man who abused his position as an Islamic teacher in Ipswich, has been convicted of numerous non-recent sexual assaults.
Hafez Ashraf Uddin, of Wivenhoe Road, Barking in London, was found guilty of 13 counts of indecent assault at Ipswich Crown Court yesterday, Thursday 5 June, following a trial l...
Read More..........Emergency workers will be better protected from violence and abuse when visiting homes as the government introduces new laws to support frontline staff.
Source: Home Office published on this website Wednesday 11 June 2025 by Jill Powell
The new measures, tabled today (11 June 2025) as amendments to the government’s landmark Crime and Policing Bill, will close an existing loophole that allows people to get away with racial and religious abuse towards police, fire and ambulance workers making house calls.
Currently, it is illegal to racially or re...
Read More..........Enforcing the Online Safety Act: Ofcom opens nine new investigations
Enforcing the Online Safety Act: Ofcom opens nine new investigations
Source: Ofcom published on this website Tuesday 10 June 2025 by Jill Powell
Ofcom has today launched investigations into whether seven file-sharing services, 4chan and porn provider First Time Videos have failed to comply with their duties under the UK’s Online Safety Act.
Duties under the Act
The Online Safety Act has ...
Read More..........Appliance servicing company which used high pressure sales tactics on elderly and vulnerable is shut down
Source: The Insolvency Service published on this website Monday 9 June 2025 by Jill Powell
A company which used high pressure sales tactics to sell service plans for household appliances has been shut down after an Insolvency Service investigation found it targeted the elderly and vulnerable.
UK Service Plan Ltd, registered at Princess Street in Manchester and formerly Trafalgar Place, Br...
Read More..........Survivors of rape and serious sexual assault given the right to have dropped cases reviewed
Source: Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published on this website Friday 6 June 2025 by Jill Powell
Victims of rape and serious sexual assaults who face their cases being dropped by prosecutors will, for the first time, be given the right to have their case reviewed by a different prosecutor before any final decisions are made.
Criminal cases can be stopped at any point if a prosecutor decides&n...
Read More..........Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership publishes Independent Practice Review
Source: Birmingham Safeguarding Children Partnership published on this website Thursday 5 June 2025 by Jill Powell
Child Safeguarding Practice Review: Child A BSCP 2022-23/04 published 4 June 2025
Introduction and background to the review:
“This report sets out the findings and learning from a Child Safeguarding Practice Review (CSPR) that was commissioned by the Birmingham Safeguarding C...
Read More..........Regulator issues Official Warning to charity and disqualifies trustee over inflammatory social media activity
Source: Charity Commission published on this website Wednesday 4 June 2025 by Jill Powell
The Commission has also issued an Order disqualifying one of the charity’s trustees from being a trustee and from holding a position with senior management functions, for a period of eight years.
Palestinian Refugee Project was registered in 2021, with objects to benefit the Palestinian diaspora in ref...
Read More..........New offence of forcing people to hide objects in their bodies
Source: Home Office published on this website Tuesday 3 June 2025 by Jill Powell
A new criminal offence of ‘coerced internal concealment’, to be introduced as an amendment to the landmark Crime and Policing Bill, will crack down on anyone, including gang leaders who force people to hide items inside their bodies to avoid detection.
This practice, also known by the street names...
Read More..........Don’t get hooked: new warning urges the public to continue reporting phishy emails and texts with 41 million already reported
Source: Action Fraud published on this website Monday 2 June 2025 by Jill Powell
As of April 2025, the total number of phishing scams reported to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) reached over 41 million since its launch in April 2020. This has resulted in 217,000 scams being removed from across 393,395 websites pages by the National Cyber Security Centre.
Insight revealed...
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