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Research on justice and support systems says current approach creates further trauma, resulting in lifelong consequencesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastQueensland’s First Nations children experiencing domestic a…
Now illegal for 16- and 17-year-olds to marry or enter a civil partnership, even with parental consentCampaigners have hailed a new law raising the legal age of marriage in England and Wales as a significant milestone in child protection.The Marriage a…
Conclusions from long-term survey in Sweden come days after 10th anniversary of Ella Kissi-Debrah’s death in LondonReducing air pollution could improve lung function development in children and cut the numbers of young people with significant pulmonary…
Pen Green, a leader in wraparound care, says it will shut if Tory council goes ahead with £800,000 of cutsA trailblazing children’s centre in one of the UK’s poorest towns that inspired the creation of Sure Start is facing closure because of local coun…
Charity says police recording has improved but online grooming has risen and tech firms are failing to actPolice have recorded a surge in child abuse image offences in the UK, with more than 30,000 reported in the most recent year, according to a repor…
England’s chief medical officer voices concern as vape use among 11- to 17-year-olds doubles in two yearsChildren are being targeted with “appalling” and “utterly unacceptable” marketing of vapes, England’s chief medical officer has said as he called f…
Survey also finds 32% of parents with children under four are having to cut down on essentials such as groceries as costs riseMost parents with young children would delay having another due to nursery costs that are already forcing some to cut down on …
Police stopped ‘eight late-stage terror plots’ in the past yearOfficers have been forced to step in and stop the “real threat” of teenagers plotting US-style attacks on schools, the head of counter-terrorism policing has revealed.Matt Jukes said there …
Thirty-year-old pleaded guilty and judge calls her choice to leave daughters in vehicle ‘inexcusable’A Queensland woman has been jailed for nine years for negligently leaving her two young daughters to die in a hot car.Kerri-Ann Conley, 30, of Waterfor…
A study analysing four- and five-year-olds suggests they responded less compassionately to others when a personal reward was at stakeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastYoung children are willing to help others in d…