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Figures show usage has barely shifted in a year, despite rising food poverty in UKThe government has missed its target to increase the take-up of NHS healthy food vouchers aimed at vulnerable parents of young children, it has emerged, despite soaring g…
Sir Peter Wanless welcomes creation of taskforce but says ‘there must be a focus on more than just race’Politics live – latest updatesThe NSPCC and experts on grooming gangs have warned ministers against framing the issue as one based around ethnicity,…
Children’s and young adult author of 1970 book Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret says growing intolerance must be challengedThe author Judy Blume says a rise in intolerance in America has led to a “much worse” epidemic of book banning than she exper…
Cancelled treatment causing a ‘lifelong’ impact on children’s health, senior doctor warnsThousands of children experiencing “unacceptable” long waits for NHS treatment face a “lifelong” impact on their health, a senior doctor has warned, as shocking fi…
Exclusive: group says military is compromising children’s right to education with its campaign against militantsEgyptian forces have taken over 37 schools and transformed them into military bases while dozens more have been destroyed during a 10-year w…
Report says black children over-represented in strip-searches by police between 2018 and 2022An official report accuses police of the widespread abuse of their power to strip-search children, with black children 11 times more likely than their white pe…
Health service managers in south-west England say new restrictions are needed because of a huge rise in waiting listsNHS managers in south-west England have imposed new rules that could deny autism assessments to thousands of children in a move that pa…
Children’s social services bosses in England denounce plans that will ‘irreversibly distort the care system’Politics live – latest updatesChildren’s social services bosses have launched an outspoken attack on the government’s illegal migration bill, wa…
Slashing funding to the programme from a promised £7m to just £1m sends a ‘stark message to the world’, says Save the ChildrenThe UK government has cut almost £6m in funding to a programme in Afghanistan supporting vulnerable women and girls.Save the …
Concern growing that diagnoses by unregulated experts are being used to silence parents or undermine allegations of abuseAn urgent inquiry is needed into unregulated psychological experts being used in high conflict disputes to diagnose whether one …