Health
‘A really scary place for children’: English hospitals have chronic lack of health play staff
Analysis finds only 955 play professionals supporting 21 million child hospital admissions, leaving many traum...
Children
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Health
The families facing a food crisis in school holidays
Letter: Andrew Forsey urges the government to restore the link between free school meals and the holiday activ...
Health
Children’s care homes rely on committed people
Letter: Without the unflinching commitment of managers, social workers and those who work in them, they won’t...
Health
Princess’s story: the case that highlights scourge of illegal care provision
Child was sent to live in 11 different Airbnbs or hotels and two ‘barren and inhospitable’ houses, as companie...
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Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England
Exclusive: Booming industry of businesses profit from shortage of beds for most at-risk children
Health
Chancellor urged to fix £100k childcare ‘cliff edge’ that prompts parents to cut work
Threshold pushes some to reduce hours or stop working to avoid losing entitlement, report warns
Technology
UK to force Apple and Google to block explicit images on children’s smartphones
Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthrough