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Desperate for news and contact during a 13-day shutdown, Iranians searched for proxy links outside the country• Middle East crisis – live updatesAmir* hasn’t slept much in days. From his apartment in northern Tehran, the 23-year-old has spent his night…
Government’s defence plans include 30% expansion of cadet forces, seen as critical to ‘understanding’ of defenceIt is a balmy Thursday evening in north-east London and a dozen teenagers in combat fatigues are practising first aid on each other inside a…
Experts find link between compulsive use of social media, phones and video games and mental health problemsTeenagers who show signs of being addicted to social media, mobile phones or video games are at greater risk of suicidal behaviour and emotional …
Jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts for 50 offences committed by the men between 2001 and 2006Seven men who groomed and treated as “sex slaves” two vulnerable teenage girls in Rochdale have been found guilty of multiple sex offences.A long running …
Scheme aims to exploit ‘teachable moment’, when someone is wavering between criminality and turning their back on violenceA scheme aiming to turn children arrested for violence away from crime has claimed staggering success, with up to nine out of 10 d…
Girl’s lawyer tells police misconduct hearing that she felt ‘physically violated’ by incident at her London schoolA black schoolgirl suffered mental harm and felt “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police, a misconduct heari…
Families share incidents of sons being slashed and afraid to leave their cells at HMP Swinfen HallYoung offenders at a troubled prison in the Midlands have been stabbed, “dehumanised” and are “becoming more violent” in order to survive, mothers of pris…
Mitchells & Butlers pubco boss says home delivery boom and social media have changed attitudes to going out lateA social media and a home delivery boom has shifted younger people’s attitude to going out and risks shrinking the late night entertainm…
Starmer committed to ‘backing young people’ but charity says words are not being matched by investment in EnglandThe Labour government is spending less on youth work in England than the Conservatives did after a decade of cuts, despite the prime minist…
JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schoolsA project in the UK which included young people designing their own play spaces has led to what researchers say is the highest increase in childre…