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Hazel ShearingEducation correspondentGetty ImagesPupils in England who missed school during the first week back in September 2024 were more likely to miss large parts during the…

One in three children do not play outdoors after school and a fifth do not at the weekend, according to research that found outdoor play has…

Michelle RobertsDigital health editor, BBC News andAoife WalshBBC NewsGetty ImagesChickenpox can start with flu-like symptoms, such as a high temperature and headache.All young children in England,…

For the first time, a free chickenpox vaccination will be offered to children in England by the NHS from January next year. Here we explore the…

England needs to “wake up” to its faltering infant vaccination programme, experts have warned, as it was revealed that one in five children start primary school…

Firefighters work on the site of a burning building after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption toggle…

Children and young people are being overdiagnosed with mental health conditions in a society that has lost sight of the reality that child development is “messy…

Schools will need to give democracy lessons to children from the age of 11 and ask teachers to leave their politics at the classroom door to…

Huda Abu Naja lies weak and emaciated on a thin mattress in her family’s tent in a displacement camp in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.The 12-year-old Palestinian…

Turkey’s first lady has urged Melania Trump to speak out for children suffering in Israel’s war in Gaza.Emine Erdogan praised the US first lady’s support for…