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Children's rights

August 2024

  • Crowd of protesters with placards complaining about police racism

    Police believe strip-searching children can be effective, but suspicions of misuse remain

    A report by the children’s commissioner says nothing is found in half of strip-searches of children and its use has a racial disparity. Can its implementation ever be balanced?
  • Jenni Fagan and Samantha Morton photographed at the Union Club in London, August 2024

    ‘The hardest thing is to forgive yourself’: actor Samantha Morton and writer Jenni Fagan on the trauma of growing up in care

    Both women have used their work to process childhoods ravaged by neglect and abuse. Meeting for the first time, they discuss survival and anger, Fagan’s new memoir, and the state of the UK’s care system today
  • a US department of justice logo

    Texas lockups violate minors’ constitutional rights, says US justice department

    Department of Justice report found pattern of sexual abuse and mistreatment in the state’s juvenile justice facilities

July 2024

  • Damaged structure of a burned out building with rubble lying around

    Rights and freedom
    Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report

  • The Children's Inquiry at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

    The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care

June 2024

  • A mourner carries the body of a Palestinian child killed in an Israeli strike

    UN adds Israel to list of states committing violations against children

    Inclusion comes after eight months of the country’s bombing of Gaza which has killed 13,000 children and a day after Israel bombed a UN school

May 2024

  • A parent with two small children on a stairway on an estate

    Next government urged to wake up to UK’s ‘shocking’ levels of child poverty

    Charities call for law within first 100 days after general election to ensure annual rises in the financial help parents receive

April 2024

  • A woman looking out of her window.

    Man who raped his wife tried to convince court he was victim of domestic abuse

    Claim of parental alienation made to ‘distress and frighten’, English court told

February 2024

  • Young female sitting alone in a dark room looking out through a window blind.<br>CPYF9T Young female sitting alone in a dark room looking out through a window blind.

    Care homes in England reject vulnerable children to protect Ofsted ratings

    Young people with complex needs face long waits for places because providers fear negative watchdog reports

November 2023

  • Michael Shuls in his green and yellow American football kit on the pitch with his team

    The future of work
    ‘It should never have happened’: death of boy, 16, at sawmill highlights rise of child labour in US

    Michael Schuls died after getting trapped in dangerous machinery at a mill in Wisconsin. But across the US conservative groups are pushing to loosen laws that protect children in the workplace
  • Farid and Qoosay’s surgeries were a resounding success.

    These Palestinian boys received life-saving surgery in the US. An Israeli airstrike killed them in their home

    The trajectory of Farid and Qoosay’s fight to save themselves from the ravages of a rare medical condition only to die a violent death is a portrait of the limitations of life in Gaza
  • Democratic members of the US House of Representatives call for a ceasefire in Gaza on Capitol Hill in Washington DC on 13 November 2023.

    AOC leads Democrats urging Biden to call for Gaza ceasefire over children’s rights

    Exclusive: Twenty-four representatives led by Ocasio-Cortez, Pocan and McCollum ‘express deep concern about intensifying war’ in letter

October 2023

  • The woman at the centre of the case had her evidence reheard on appeal.

    Woman raped by ex-partner left traumatised by English family courts

  • Unhappy looking young boy wearing blue top leans face against a railing

    Children were failed by pandemic policies, Covid inquiry told

September 2023

  • Is Finland the best place in the world to be a parent? – video

  • TikTok logo on a smartphone

    TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

July 2023

  • Marion Davis reading to a young nephew

    Other lives
    Marion Davis obituary

    Other Lives: Social worker who worked to protect children throughout her career, and who regarded their voices as paramount
  • A child's toy on the ground outside boarded-up houses in Pendleton, Salford.

    Revealed: children’s care homes flood into cheapest areas of England, not where most needed

    Shocking figures gathered by the Observer show social care provision is dictated by money, not need
  • Meta this week introduced new parental supervision tools.

    Meta’s new parental tools will not protect vulnerable children, experts say

    Tech firm gives parents greater control over their children’s online activities, but not all kids have consistent supervision

May 2023

  • Two young Malawian boys with dreadlocks

    Malawi’s Rastafarian children return to school after ban on dreadlocks is lifted

    Schools told to honour court order as families seek compensation and training for pupils who missed education because of their hair
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