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Children’s commissioner for England calls for ‘robust’ measures in UK’s online safety bill to protect young peopleEngland’s children’s commissioner has called for the “most robust” online protections for under-18s after publishing research examining li…
Families in Rhyl decry ‘shameful’ lack of consultation before removal of Drift Park play area to make way for flood defencesThe developer Balfour Beatty and Denbighshire council have been accused of ignoring the needs of children by ripping out a playg…
Survey finds exhaustion and low morale among school nurses as they face increasingly complex caseloadsSchool nurses’ crucial, underfunded roleThe UK needs at least 11,000 more school nurses to deal with the increasingly complex needs of young people af…
Access to PCV jabs in South Sudan, Somalia, Guinea and Chad ‘could save 40,000 children a year’Delays in rolling out a vaccine against childhood pneumonia in four of the world’s poorest countries have been blamed for thousands of unnecessary deaths.Sou…
School badges, logos and branded items must not be compulsory amid cost of living crisis, says Labour-led governmentSchools in Wales have been told that they must not make school badges and logos on uniforms compulsory or force parents to buy branded i…
Exclusive: Increases since 2019 also outstrip funding for free school meals as costs jump, Lib Dems findThe price of school lunches has increased by more than a third in parts of England, increasing the pressure on school finances and family budgets du…
What Kids Are Reading report found communities on sites such as TikTok helped stimulate interest in readingThe number of books read by children increased by almost a quarter last year, according to a report, as BookTok and other social media trends sti…
Data collated from responses to FoI requests from 70 different local authorities about age assessments Hundreds of asylum seeker children are wrongly being treated as adults by the Home Office, according to data from dozens of local authorities.Respons…
UKHSA says adolescent vaccination rates have faltered, leaving many at risk of catching deadly diseasesVaccination rates have fallen among schoolchildren in England since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, health officials have said, amid a global cri…
Dirty air causes premature death of at least 1,200 children across Europe every year, says European Environment AgencyEurope is failing its children when it comes to air pollution, exposing nearly all children across the continent to air that falls bel…