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Children

9 August 2024

  • Feet of two schoolgirls walking along

    Rightwing thinktank joins calls to scrap two-child benefit limit

    Exclusive: Onward said cap has resulted in increased child poverty, adding to pressure on government to rethink its stance

8 August 2024

  • Untidy room with overflowing suitcase

    Record homeless figures in England prompt calls to tackle ‘national scandal’

  • A woman in a niqab looks at a small baby lying in a cot and hooked up to machines in a hospital

    ‘It’s happening on the scale of a pandemic’: the drug-resistant infections killing African babies

7 August 2024

  • Protesters carry placards against the ban on puberty blockers at a march in London last month.

    Delayed puberty blocker clinical trial to start next year in England

    Several thousand children and young people who are questioning their gender identity may participate
  • A baby has their heart checked by a doctor with a stethoscope.

    Ditching two-child benefit cap would cut deaths and A&E admissions, study says

    England research shows huge benefits with resulting savings for NHS and councils
  • Robert Daniels hold s a plastic crate of food at his purple van, with the Fans Supporting Foodbanks logo on the side, the

    Hardship on the streets of Liverpool: ‘The benefit cap put millions of children in poverty overnight’

    With parents going without meals to feed their children, and bills rising, residents and councillors talk of the problems they see every day

6 August 2024

  • Back view of runner woman doing stretching and warming up her body before running in running track.<br>The benifit of stretching can increasing flexibility performance and reduce risk of injury.

    Long before I learned the word ‘hubris’ Little Athletics taught me a valuable lesson

    Sian Prior
  • A girl using ice-cream in a cone to paint a mess on a window

    Sharing the Load
    Of course I love my children – just don’t assume I’ll like yours

    Sunil Badami
  • Ollie and Imogen leaning against a wall

    Family violence and childhoods lost: census shows ‘horrifying’ plight of homeless youths in Melbourne

  • a side-by-side image of Ron DeSantis and children picking up food

    Ron DeSantis’s rejection of federal aid left children hungry, advocates say

  • I fear books are going the way of vinyl records – a rarefied pursuit for hobbyists

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Two-child benefit cap is cementing regional poverty, Starmer told

  • End of the adventure: council funding cuts imperil Leicester’s playgrounds

5 August 2024

  • Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool

    Waiting list for children’s gender care rose after opening of new specialist hubs

    More than 5,700 under-18s in England and Wales by end May were waiting an average of 100 weeks for first appointment

4 August 2024

  • Side by side, Meghan smiling

    Meghan: I’m airing my struggle with suicidal thoughts to help others

  • Somal leans, with folded arms, against a breeze-block pillar

    Special educational needs system in England in ‘utter disarray’, says ombudsman

3 August 2024

  • A teacher drawing on paper with young pupils in a preschool class

    Free childcare pledge in England in peril after Tories ‘recklessly rushed out’ plan

    Nurseries warn they lack staff for next month’s expansion of free provision that was promised by Conservatives
  • Former presenter Huw Edwards leaves Westminster magistrates’ court on Wednesday after admitting accessing indecent photographs of children.

    BBC wipes Huw Edwards from archive but role in state occasions presents challenge

    Broadcaster removes image and voice from content as Welsh organisations erase disgraced presenter from websites
  • Three men wearing suits stand at a conference, with one speaking at a podium

    What’s ahead for Kosa, an online safety act for minors, as it reaches US House?

    Act pushing social media reforms for children passed 91-3 in Senate but still faces a long road ahead in House

2 August 2024

  • Huw Edwards wearing sunglasses and a suit walks towards a car with an open door surrounded by photographers as police try to clear a way for him

    Huw Edwards should return BBC salary paid after arrest, says Lisa Nandy

    Culture secretary says whether or not disgraced presenter returns the money ‘is up to him’
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