My preferred medium for children’s education: musical theatre
When my stepdaughters want to know where the songs I’m humming come from, the history lessons begin.
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How the weather changed on the “cruel” two-child benefit cap
Labour’s manifesto promises on child poverty are catching up with Keir Starmer.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock’s vision of girlhood
Peter Weir’s 1975 film, like Joan Lindsey’s original novel, understands that being a teenage girl is an experience full of…
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Rising mental health demand in children is outstripping capacity
Young people’s struggles cannot be left to spiral.
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The cost of austerity
A generation of children have been held back by political opportunism.
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A cold childhood
My unheated home wasn’t a temporary discomfort. The chill got into my bones.
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Britain’s ghost children
School lifted me out of poverty. Today’s absence crisis denies that opportunity to thousands.
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Free breakfast is not enough
It’s time for the government to step up: Britain’s children need high-quality food to thrive.
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The child in time
Writers reflect on photographs of their younger selves.
Britain is failing children in care
I had to leave my foster home when I turned 18. I looked for support and found none.
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Stained by shame: Britain’s hygiene poverty crisis
In the absence of state support, teachers are providing everything from clothing to soap.
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Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
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Gordon Brown: the moral economist
In a time of brutal inequality, can the former prime minister still imagine a better world?
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Give the kidfluencers rights
A new documentary tracks terrible allegations against the parents of child internet stars.
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Church and an all-girls school gave me great freedom to be uncool
Might we have been less competitive, less obsessed by body image, had our circle been diluted with boys?
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What is school for?
The struggle for control of the national curriculum is a fight for the soul of English education.
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The special needs trap
What one parent’s experience reveals about a system on the brink of collapse.
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How courts punish the victims of domestic abuse
Even after leaving their tormentors, those who have suffered at the hands of their partners face a brutal legal battle.
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The legacy of “pro-life” abortion bans is death
Infant mortality rates in the US have rapidly increased since Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022.
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Why celebrity surrogacy announcements provoke such anger
Lily Collins has become a lightning rod for outrage and dismay in the fraught territory of fertility.
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