England
- Child Abduction
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Child Sexual Abuse
- Lawsuit Alleges Child Welfare Failures After 8-Year-Old Boy Found Dead in Attic Two Years Ago
- Sacked Footballer and Friend Jailed for Sexually Abusing Three 14-Year-Old Girls in Flat
- Church Abuse Case Exposes Scale of Harm, Renewing Calls for Stronger Safeguarding in Faith Institutions
- Ex-Police Officer Jailed 24 Years for Grooming and Sexually Assaulting a Girl, Exposing Safeguarding Failures
- Cranston Man Arrested in Somerset for Attempting to Exploit a Child, Raising Safeguarding Alarm
- Former Teacher Convicted in Chilling Child Abuse Case
- Afghan national admits raping 12-year-old girl
- School bus driver sentenced after being caught watching adult content while picking up pupils
- Predator cousins guilty of grooming and raping five girls in ‘appalling’ abuse
- Rotherham child sex abuser handed new jail sentence for rape of teenage girl
- Teenage nursery worker convicted of child rape
- Man given six life sentences for raping children
- Former Dover police officer sentenced to prison for distribution of child sexual abuse materials
- Brothers jailed for raping 12-year-old girl
- David Coote Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Offence
- Paedophile singer Ian Watkins dies in prison attack as two men arrested
- Man jailed for raping girl ‘showed no remorse’
- Student overstayer jailed for raping girl, 12
- Man whose arrest sparked Epping hotel protest found guilty of sexual assault of 14-year-old girl
- Teacher who sent pictures of herself in underwear to student banned from the classroom
- Women abused as children by Rotherham gangs say police also sexually assaulted them
- Red House: 62 people now say they experienced abuse at children’s home run by a ‘cult’
- Rape accused denies knowing girl was underage
- Inside the Sordid Case of a Predator Teacher Who Had Teen’s Baby, Then Cried in Court During Sentencing
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Children and Family Support Service
- Government Moves to Protect Children as Ministers Pledge to Halve England’s School Attainment Gap
- Government Pledges 10,000 New Foster Care Places as Safeguarding Pressures Mount
- At least 4,200 Essex children in temporary homes
- Free Childcare Pledge in England in Peril After Tories ‘Recklessly Rushed out’ Plan
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Children in Conflict with the Law
- Teens charged after boy injured outside McDonald’s
- Girl accused of murder ‘stabbed victim 143 times’
- Cell phone data led Birmingham police to 17-year-old suspect in 82-year-old woman’s shooting death
- Boy, 15, who murdered British teenager Harvey Willgoose sentenced to life with minimum term of 16 years
- Manhunt launched after boy, 15, stabbed to death in Manchester
- Teenage boy arrested after death of 13-year-old girl in Huddersfield
- Three children arrested on suspicion of murder
- Boy, 12, and teens sentenced for roles in disorder
- 17-Year-Old Boy Charged with Murder of 3 Girls After Stabbing at Taylor Swift-Themed Event in Southport
- Teen Arrested After 8 People, Including Children, Hospitalized in Stabbing Near Taylor Swift-Themed Event: Reports
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Education
- Thousands of Children at Risk in “Dirty and Dangerous” Illegal Schools Across England
- School bans singing of KPop Demon Hunters songs
- Phone bans create safer schools -Brianna’s mum
- Kent Schools Lead Charge in Smartphone Bans, Citing Mental Health and Safety Concerns
- ‘School punished my daughter because her skirt was 2cm too short’
- School suspensions rise to nearly a million in England
- How ‘talk pedometers’ are transforming education in Birmingham, US classrooms
- ‘We shouldn’t have to beg for special needs support’
- Send is the ‘biggest issue’ for schools – Ofsted
- 6-Year-Olds in England Get a Phonics Check. American Kids Should Get One, Too
- Phonics Screening Check: Why this Test Taken by six-year-olds in England just isn’t Needed
- Kent Special Schools Threaten to sue Council over Inclusion Plans
- Major Fears Over Labour’s Nursery Plan for 9-Month-Olds in Schools
- Hungry Children Falling Asleep in Class, Says Head
- Teachers Want Better Pay and Working Conditions, not lie-ins
- Ofsted Cannot be Allowed to Reform Itself, Say Teachers’ Unions
- English Universities Offer to Curb Foreign Students if They can Raise Tuition Fees
- Exam Nation by Sammy Wright Review – an Essential Lesson for Britain’s Grade-Obsessed Education System
- Fifty English Secondary Schools Suspended More Than a Quarter of Pupils after Pandemic
- A-levels Results: Pupils in England Achieve Best Results Since 2010
- Boost to A-Level Maths Reflects Student Desire for Digital Literacy, Experts say
- Principal Issues Warning to Parents and Students Ahead of A-Level Results in Wales
- A-Level Students Choosing Narrower Range of Subjects After Gove Changes
- English Universities Face Autumn ‘Tipping Point’ as Financial Crisis Looms
- Nottingham School with Alternative Curriculum Could Close Amid Government’s tax Change Plan
- Number of Teachers Abandoning the Profession Reaches Five Year High as Almost 40,000 Leave State Schools in Just one Year
- England’s Curriculum Review: What Education Experts Want to See
- Special Educational Needs System in England in ‘Utter Disarray’, Says Ombudsman
- Dolly Parton Book Scheme Expands in County
- Excluded From Primary School Aged Five: Parents say the SEND System is ‘Broken’
- We Don’t Know How Many People are Having Babies – and That’s a Headache for Schools
- English Schools to Phase Out ‘Cruel’ Behaviour Rules as Labour Plans Major Education Changes
- School Heads Urge Labour to Continue Funding National Tutoring Scheme
- England’s ‘Strictest Headmistress’ on How Old-School Education Saves Kids: Full Comment Podcast
- Private Schools in England Should be Made to Share Their Green Space, say Campaigners
- Fears for Children as Special Educational Needs Budgets Tighten
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Health Matters
- Unvaccinated Students Hit Hard as Meningitis B Outbreak Claims Lives in Kent
- Protecting Children During the Meningitis B Outbreak: Essential Safety Tips for Parents
- The children and families spending a ‘different’ Christmas in hospital
- Summer camp leader, 76, admits drugging children with sedative-laced sweets
- Boy learns to walk again after life-saving brain tumour surgery
- Charity helps girl’s family after heart operation
- Law And Policy
- Missing Children
- Neglect
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Physical Abuse
- Boy, 16, ‘fighting for his life’ after shooting
- Six-figure sum agreed after baby’s choking death
- Girl, 12, tried to harm herself before death
- ‘My son is not the same boy after bonfire burns accident’
- ‘Lovely’ boy, 8, found dead at home pictured as woman, 40, charged with murder
- Girl, 9, shot in ‘racially aggravated’ broad daylight attack in UK city
- Is a ban on phones in schools enough to protect our children?
- 12-year-old allegedly died after falling from playground equipment, 13-year-old arrested
- Boy, 2, killed after car hits multiple pedestrians in Kent
- Child dies and 21 injured after school coach crash
- Nursery worker pleads guilty to manslaughter over death of toddler
- 4-year-old boy killed by falling gravestone
- Police hunt van driver as girl dies in tram crash
- 2-year-old found murdered in stroller, police say child pushed around lifeless for days
- Teen who stabbed girls at Taylor Swift dance event admits murder
- Parents of Boy, 2, Who Died After ‘Fatal Medical Episode’ at Preschool Say They’re ‘Devastated Beyond Words’
- 2 Children Killed, Others Hospitalized in Mass Stabbing by Teen at Taylor Swift-Themed Event: Police
- 2 Children Dead, 9 Injured in England Stabbing, Police Say
- Research Alert
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Special Education
- Some schools in England taking up to six times more special needs pupils than others
- Special needs services in England face ‘total collapse’ from increasing demand
- Why parents are taking councils to court over special educational needs
- Funding increases for pupils with special educational needs insufficient – IFS
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Strong Room
- The US families celebrating Thanksgiving 5,000 miles from home
- ‘I’ve had seven babies for other families’
- Inside the town where 6 out of 7 children grow up in poverty – and live in fear of homelessness
- Action Against Child Removal: Survey Findings
- Join The Sunday Times Get Britain Reading campaign
- Disabled TikToker shows she is ‘normal teen girl’
- I’m 41 and a mom to triplets. I did the math and would need 6 figures just to cover the day care fees.
- Courts failing children of divorcees, says lawyer
- Boy saves thousands of sweet tubs from landfill
- County lines gangs ‘offering lip filler and Botox’ to lure girls into drug trade
- Teens to Run Council’s Social Media for the Day
- My Helicopter Parents Forged Job Applications for me as a Teen. I Almost Made the Same Mistake With my Own Child
- Royal News Roundup: a New Royal Baby, a Royal Gender Reveal & an Update on Archie & Lilibet from Meghan Markle
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