Editors' picks
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Gallery (11 pictures): The UN's international youth day on August 15 draws some attention to India's street children -
When the government published its strategy for children the part that caught the headlines was not about child protection but the dangers of over-protecting them -
Andrew Bridge survived the US care system to become a lawyer, campaigner, and now best-selling author. By Mary O'Hara -
Why do the authorities have more data on missing cars than on runaway children -
The issue of 'transracial' adoption is controversial with experts divided on what's best for children -
Red tape and targets are driving early years teachers into the world of franchises
Most recent
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Measles epidemic fears prompt new MMR jab drive
Aug 7 2008:Government launches campaign to increase uptake of the MMR jab amid growing fears of a measles epidemic
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Poll, Aug 5 2008: To tackle the growing 'obesity epidemic', health officials will be writing to parents of overweight children – but have been told by ministers to avoid the words 'fat' and 'obese', an instruction some find mealymouthed. But is a tactful approach the right one?
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Aug 5 2008:
Department of Health announce plans to tackle obesity epidemic but avoid 'negative' words
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Aug 5 2008:
Polly Toynbee and David Walker accompany Brent school students on a visit to Oxford
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Aug 4 2008:
Conservatives claims scheme to keep teens at school cost £2.3m for each pupil that stayed on
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Aug 3 2008:
A major study says parents harm their children's development if they ban tree-climbing or conkers
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Aug 3 2008:
The proportion of young people who self-harm in the UK is now among the highest in Europe
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Aug 3 2008:
There are plenty of households in the UK where the wealthiest person is also the youngest
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Aug 2 2008:
Jersey police have found human remains at care home, but is the truth any closer?
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Aug 1 2008:
Parenting classes, to be rolled out across the country in the next three years, work well but struggle to recruit fathers, the biggest UK study into them has discovered
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Aug 1 2008:
No prosecutions of mothers made despite 4,854 false paternity claims since records began in 1998-9
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Aug 1 2008:
Letter: The sad fact is that the longer it takes for a child to come into care, the more ingrained the damage will be
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Jul 31 2008:
Statistics show no link between premature birth, stillbirth, low birth weight with assisted fertilisation
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Jul 30 2008:
Students are being accepted on to childcare courses 'unable to string a coherent sentence together', teachers warn
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Jul 30 2008:
Parents should introduce their children to alcohol at home in order to avoid it causing trouble when they are older, the Conservative leader, David Cameron, said today
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- Quashing restraint rules for youths in custody is a genuine human rights victory
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- Violence shouldn't be an occupational hazard
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