Browsing: children

Helen RichardsonNorth East and Cumbria political reporterBBCTony McDonald devised a course after hearing parents’ “cries for help”A group of parents have been attending classes to learn…

A cross-party group of more than 100 MPs has written to the government, highlighting the plight of Palestinian students unable to take up scholarships at UK…

When Australian Christian College, a high school in the Melbourne outer suburb of Casey, implemented a phone ban on its campus, there were multiple reasons for…

Ruth GreenBBC News,Fiona TrottBBC News andGerry GeorgievaEngland Data UnitBBCIncidents of very young children taking knives into primary schools have been revealed by a BBC investigation.Police in…

When pediatricians diagnose preschoolers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, there are clear steps they are supposed to take. Families should first be referred to behavior therapy,…

Vanessa ClarkeEducation reporterGetty ImagesA decision by the NHS to redeploy health visitors during the pandemic was “fundamentally flawed” and “children were harmed” as a result, the…

The children’s publisher Puffin is hurriedly contacting UK schools and local authorities after it discovered that a website address included in a popular children’s book series…

Marianna SpringSocial media investigations correspondentBBCThe inquest into the death of Paloma Shemirani, the daughter of a British conspiracy theorist, was like something out of a TV…

The government should apologise to children for the damaging mistakes and policy errors it committed during the pandemic, the former children’s commissioner for England has told…

In an underground shelter in Kherson, probably the most dangerous city in Ukraine, children are chasing each other between plastic chairs. Outside,mortars, artillery and drones fly…