The other windfall tax: Can this blueprint fix the children’s care system?
The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care calls for £2.6bn of new spending on “the civil rights issue of our…
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Reading to my son, I realise you can get away with murder in children’s books
Moralising hasn’t disappeared from children’s literature, but the content of the message has subtly changed.
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“Children have sacrificed so much – we must prioritise them”
The pandemic has taken its toll on children's mental health
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Smacking a child is not like punching a minister
The debate highlights how Western society’s perspective on children has changed.
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David McKee leaves behind beautiful, vivid art – and an important message
The creator of Mr Benn, Elmer and Not Now Bernard died on 6 April aged 87. But traces of his…
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Clare and Michael Morpurgo: Experiencing nature is as important as literature
The author and his wife teach children to value their environment and themselves by immersing them in farm life and…
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Does social media make children feel worse?
Social media’s link to wellbeing, particularly among young people, is far more tenuous than much of the discourse on the…
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Truth’s out: our “natural” birth obsession kills
The Shrewsbury report proves C-sections save lives.
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