Film honours 41 ‘heroines’ lost in Guatemala children’s home fire
As their families await justice, Jayro Bustamante’s movie, Rita, highlights the bravery of victims of 2017 blaze, and the authorities’ failure to protect them
June 2024
Alarming lack of access to green space fuelling UK child obesity crisis, doctors warn
Exclusive: Medics say children with poor access to outdoor play at school at higher risk of developing lifelong health problems
May 2024
Millions of British children born since 2010 have only known poverty. My £3bn plan would give them hope
Gordon Brown
We know about the hardship of ‘Thatcher’s children’, but a new generation of Tories has raised inequality to even higher levels, says the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
April 2024
Smacking a child is just an act of violence. Why do England and Northern Ireland still allow it?
Frances Ryan
Sex offender banned from using AI tools in landmark UK case
Ban smacking children in England and Northern Ireland, say doctors
Battle lines drawn as US states take on big tech with online child safety bills
March 2024
Queensland LNP vows to ditch ‘detention as last resort’ approach to youth crime
‘Profiteering off children’: care firms in England accused of squeezing cash from councils
December 2023
Profiteering fears as global investment firms increase stakes in England’s child social care
Observer investigation finds homes backed by private equity more than doubled in five years, with Qatar and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds among investors
October 2023
Biggest independent children’s care providers in England made £300m profit last year
Revealed: one in three jailed pregnant women in England and Wales still to face trial
August 2023
Opinion
How many more poor child workers must die in Pakistan before change happens?
Zofeen T Ebrahim
Graphic videos of the last hours of 10-year-old Fatima Furiro have highlighted once again the abuse faced by child workers
May 2023
Low pay ‘forcing teaching assistants out of UK classrooms’
Australia’s child abuse redress scheme will be opened to prisoners in recognition of trauma’s impact
April 2023
‘Heartbreaking’: private care homes accused of failing UK children due to closures
Teachers warn new gender guidance for English schools could put children at risk
Parents can raise their children as they wish, but smacking them must be taboo
Sonia Sodha
How TikTok’s algorithm ‘exploits the vulnerability’ of children
March 2023
Pregnant women in English jails are seven times more likely to suffer stillbirth
Exclusive: campaigners demand new sentencing guidelines after data reveals a dramatic rise in the chance of a prisoner’s baby dying
