Former Love Island star Dr Alex George is to present a new documentary to highlight the mental health issues currently affecting children and young people in the UK. The film,
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Vulnerable children who were exploited by criminal gangs during the pandemic were forced to dress up as delivery drivers to disguise their illegal activities, according to a leading children’s charity.
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Schools have been providing “basic needs” to families, such as food and clothes, amid the pandemic due to “weaknesses” in the welfare system that urgently need repair, a report suggests.
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Reducing child poverty in Wales will be very difficult if the Conservative government keeps cutting public spending, a Welsh Government minister has said. Health and social services minister Eluned Morgan
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A teenager who had been subject to council child protection plans was taken from his mother’s care after social services staff were told that he had not changed his clothes
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Tens of thousands of children will have their lives “blighted by hardship and anxiety” without urgent action to tackle deprivation, a report has warned. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF) Poverty
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A judge has raised concern about a shortage of secure accommodation for troubled teenagers after being told that a council is spending £45,000 a week on the care of a
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Three “utterly cruel” schoolchildren who “lured” a 13-year-old boy to a park before stabbing him to death following a dispute on social media have been sentenced to custody in young
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Two-thirds of disadvantaged children are believed to have fallen behind in their education during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey of more than 650 frontline workers. A growing mental
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Maternity and specialist support services must engage more with fathers to help prevent vulnerable babies being seriously injured or killed, a child safeguarding review has found. Insufficient attention to men
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