Children
Coalition Britain: hungry children eating out of bins
Hungry children in Stoke-on-Trent have been rummaging through bins looking for something to eat.
Private school kids will earn £200,000 more
Children who attend private school will earn almost £200,000 more that state school pupils in the first 16 years of their career.
Sections of the press are deliberately painting a false picture of social workers
Reading some of the media coverage of our child protection system, it would be easy to believe social workers enter the profession to cause harm.
Tax-free childcare alone will not make childcare more affordable for most families
Today’s announcements are welcome, but the direction of travel is worrying.
The government should learn from the childcare policies of other countries
In Norway, state support for childcare goes to providers who have to meet quality criteria in order to receive any money.
Tories make last-ditch attempt to prevent action on take up of smoking by children
Tory MEPs are set to make a last ditch attempt to stop Labour-led reforms designed to reduce the take up of smoking by children.