Following the news that Hampshire constabulary paid out £20,000 in damages to a young woman who reported a rape to them in 2012, Nicole Westmarland argues the case for specialist teams to deal with people who experience sexual violence.

Following The Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, the biggest global meeting on this issue ever convened, Nicole Westmarland asks why some charity workers were refused entry?

Sexual abuse has an often devastating and long-term impact on the lives of many children and young people - for these children the future can be very dark indeed.

Recommendations in today's Stern report on rape and the criminal justice system are "still not good enough", warns a leading expert.