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Reporting a concern
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The sooner you contact your local childrenβs social care duty team, the quicker they can act. Theyβre available 24 hours a day, and can make an anonymous report if that feels safer. If a child is in immediate danger, please call the police straight away by dialling 999.
Report child abuse or neglect to your local council
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Have you seen our news about the lengths Chris Mckinlay went to to find his perfect partner?
Have you gone to extraordinary lengths to get a date or do something special for your partner/wife?
Nothing that complex, but I did use computer dating.
My methods were more simple - if anyone used just the computer generated profile description, they were ruled out as I couldn't tell anything from what was written (my own profile was definitely written from the heart - my computer generated profile said basically that I like driving, if I remember correctly). If it got to a first date, I was very honest in what I wanted from a relationship. My first meeting turned into a relationship that lasted 4 months (wasn't my choice to end it), went on a few more dates that didn't turn into second dates (but went out as a friend a few times with a couple of them) and then met the last one, and that just worked - proposed 2 weeks after our first date, and last year celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary π