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Children

9 October 2024

  • A food bank worker carries a basket of tinned tomatoes

    More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds

    One million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago

8 October 2024

  • Children in a classroom reading.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: An elite Silicon Valley school tests a tech fast

  • The TikTok logo on a black screen

    US states sue TikTok, claiming its addictive features harm youth mental health

  • Young children painting during an art lesson in a reception class

    School starters born during pandemic lack communication skills, Ofsted says

  • people hold signs that read 'protect trans kids' and 'being trans is not a choice protect gender affirming healthcare we will never give up'

    Court must rule whether Florida’s anti-trans law is the work of ‘political bullies’

  • Today, our hearts are breaking for the children of Gaza. Tomorrow, we must give them peace

    Gordon Brown

  • ‘Fear of missing out’ keeping girls and young women online despite sexism

7 October 2024

  • Little boy looking out of a window

    The Guardian view on privatised care failures: a service crying out for change

  • Woman alone with baby in kitchen

    Help with post-separation coercive control

  • A young person using a mobile phone

    ‘Parents know they are not alone’: UK pact to withhold smartphones until 14 gathers pace

  • Children play around a blue football in a school playground

    At least 10,000 children have fallen into poverty under Labour, analysis finds

6 October 2024

  • The shadow of a child playing on a swing.

    English council may ask parents of children taken into care to pay half of costs

    Derbyshire authority proposes asking for up to £113 a week for children in care under voluntary arrangements
  • Fiona poses for a photograph sitting on a log in a park or woodland

    Children raised by friends or relatives are being ‘plunged into poverty’, says UK charity

    A lack of financial and emotional support for kinship carers could push up to 18,000 children into an already overstretched foster care system

    • ‘The community is in the fabric of the building’: as UK pupil numbers fall, what will happen to empty schools?

    • The Eva Wiseman column
      Mealybugs, mobiles… It’s been a tough week for my plants and kids

      Eva Wiseman

    • Private firms ran almost all care homes forced to shut for breaches in England

5 October 2024

  • Portrait of Franky Dean for Guardian Saturday Magazine

    At 12 she was abused by a friend’s father. Police told her parents she was asleep so there was no need to let her know. The problem? They were wrong …

    Franky Dean’s story highlights the moral dilemmas of crimes with ‘unknowing victims’

4 October 2024

  • Lucy Jones

    ‘Baby brain’? ‘Fussy eater’? By dispelling such myths, science is taking the shame out of parenting

    Lucy Jones
    Most childcare advice is simply opinion; research based on data and evidence is the liberation we need, says author Lucy Jones
  • Frances Ryan

    Israel-Gaza: one year on
    Disabled Palestinians are facing horrors piled upon horrors. I think of their suffering every day

    Frances Ryan
    With every bombing, more people are left to survive without the devices and medications they need, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
  • Closeup of water running from a tap

    Dental health benefits of fluoride in water may have declined, study finds

    Researchers say wider use of fluoride toothpaste means practice now has less of a role in reducing tooth decay
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