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Police say Ki-Shawn Crumity, 26, met girl through Snapchat, and charged him with human trafficking and sexual assaultA 13-year-old Louisiana girl who went missing after meeting a man online was found alive in a box at his home several states away in Pe…
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickersMore than 50 lone child asylum seekers who disappeared soon after arriving in the UK and while in the care of the authorities …
Watchdog contacts tax authority after families’ payments stopped based on flawed travel dataMinisters may have breached privacy laws when they suspended the child benefit of thousands of families on the basis of flawed Home Office information, legal ex…
Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class childrenBridget Phillipson has said she is ready to take on the unions in a battle over compulsory reading tests for 13-year-olds and more extracurricul…
Signatories of open letter include National Children’s Bureau, Barnardo’s and celebrities such as Emilia ClarkeCelebrities, MPs and children’s charities are among dozens of signatories to an open letter ramping up pressure on the government to set tar…
New official measures show levelling up attempts have failed to shift high levels of deprivationAlmost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families, according to new measures that factor in the impact of soari…
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the tripA woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or travelled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government. Tax …
Half-measures would have little or no meaningful impact on child poverty rates, Resolution Foundation analysis findsFailure to abolish the two-child benefit limit would wreck the government’s child poverty ambitions and risk creating levels of hardship…
Male Allies UK worries rise in chatbot ‘girlfriends’ will leave boys unable to socialise and respect boundariesThe “hyper-personalised” nature of AI bots is drawing in teenage boys who now use them for therapy, companionship and relationships, accordin…
Exclusive: Parent who successfully challenged previous ban on children being prescribed hormones for gender dysphoria considers new lawsuitGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe mother of a transgender child who successfully sue…