Anger over children locked alone in jail cells
Disruptive children in youth prisons are being kept in solitary confinement in bare cells where they are stripped naked and forced to use the floor as a toilet.
A worthy end, a bad law
Mary Riddell: The Anti-social Behaviour Bill is meant to reduce juvenile crime. In fact, it will have the opposite effect.
Cheated out of childhood
Yvonne Roberts: While liberals remain nervous about discussing rules and standards, they fail today's children.
Archbishop says legal system fails children
Wartime ration trial gives weight to argument for new school menu
Children are eating the equivalent of eight chocolate bars a day more than their grandparents did and would be in far better shape if fed wartime rations.
£2m drive for healthier tuck
School tuck shops and vending machines are to be stripped of junk food under a £2 million drive to tackle child obesity fuelled by unhealthy snacking.
£1bn fails to halt slide in school sport
Two-thirds of teachers from state schools believe their sports facilities have deteriorated dramatically over the past five years, despite an unprecedented investment in encouraging pupils to become more active.
Food giants join Britain's war on flab
Britain's major food companies, supermarkets and caterers are to join forces to launch a new coalition aimed at combating high rates of obesity in children.
You thought children would make you happy? No - just poorer
New research shows that more and more adults feel having a family would come at too high a price.
Official: fat epidemic will cut life expectancy
Health chief urges action to defuse obesity crisis.
The junk food timebomb that threatens a new generation
The Government's top food adviser has issued a shock warning that life expectancy could fall if Britain does not tackle the obesity problem. Jo Revill and Kamal Ahmed reveal the latest fears over our ever growing waistlines.
Children's TV junk food ads under threat
Desk gym takes the pounds off
Pupils to be given free use of private gyms and swimming pools
Stars back school sports bid to fight obesity
Barbara Ellen: Bob almighty
Won't get fooled again...
Twelve months ago, Pete Townshend faced the world's press and confessed to accessing child pornography on the net. In this extraordinary interview, he tells the whole story for the first time and states plainly: 'What I did was wrong. And stupid. My culpability is clear, but my innocence is absolute'. By Sean O'Hagan.
Plutonium from Sellafield in all children's teeth
Government admits plant is the source of contamination but says risk is 'minute'.
British parents set to lose right to smack children
Parents' right to smack their children would finally be abolished under a historic attempt to outlaw physical punishment within the home.
MPs in plea for smacking ban to save children
Inquiry warns that even after Victoria Climbié's death abusive parents can still justify beatings as 'discipline'.
Victims of bullying strike back
How abused children learn to trust adults
Smacking by childminders to be banned
Leader: End this abuse
Should it be a crime to hit your child?
History of punishment
Hodge too humiliated to stay, says Hattersley
Embattled Children's Minister Margaret Hodge will suffer a fresh blow today when Labour's former deputy leader Roy Hattersley suggests she may have been too humiliated to stay in office.
Church 'covering up sex abuse' by clergy
Victims of sex abuse by priests have accused Catholic leaders of covering up the extent of the crimes.
Bid to curb paedophile sex tourists
Downing Street has thrown its weight behind a campaign by a children's charity to clamp down on paedophile sex tourism in the European Union.
Child abuse shown live on internet
Children are being sexually abused to order by paedophiles who charge other members of their virtual sex-rings a fee to watch over the internet as it takes place.
Net safety hope for kids' phones
Children using mobile phones to access internet chatrooms or download pornographic pictures will have their parents alerted under new 'spy' technology.
Woman of 75 due in court over Lewis child abuse probe
Sex offenders let off the hook
Kennedy reveals abuse at music school
Massive shake-up for social workers
Leader: A fair start for all
Henry McDonald: Silence is the killer
Net closes on paedophiles
Child slave smugglers will face jail at last
Traffickers who smuggle children into Britain to work as unpaid servants will face 14 years' imprisonment under a Bill that could become law by the end of the year.
Parents lose out in nursery lottery
Crisis looms as up to seven children compete for each pre-school place.
Modern times
David Aaronovitch: As Thirteen shows, young girls grow up so fast these days. Should we be worried? Yes. Can we cope? Yes.
Sex is not just for grown-ups
The age of consent has been set at 16 for the past century. Now, the Government wants to tighten the law. In this provocative and personal argument Miranda Sawyer says the Home Office is wrong: it would be better for everyone if we lowered the age to 12.
From schoolgirl to siren ... why 13-year-olds go wild
A new film explores what the headlines have been trumpeting: teenage girls are growing older younger. But are they really only interested in sex and drugs, asks Amelia Hill.
Four girls explain what it's like to be 13
Binge-drinker children pour into hospitals
Mary Riddell: Who let the yobs out?
The trouble with girls
'Alien' lenses put young eyes at risk
Cosmetic contact lenses have become must-have accessories for thousands of adolescents. But the lenses also risk permanently damaging teenagers' eyes, say opticians.
Health fear for children sparks fury over fluoride
Sweeping new measures to allow fluoride to be added to large parts of Britain's water supply are set to provoke a huge political row amid fears that 'mass medication' may harm children.
Exercise off-limits for 75% of teens
Obesity link to puberty cancer risk
Too much too young?
Diet of fish 'can prevent' teen violence
Five - and under a drug's control
Battle of the exes
Fathers who have to fight for every moment with their own children in the aftermath of break-ups claim that family law is becoming even harsher on men, write Anushka Asthana and Jamie Doward.
Some dads need to be kept away
Women and children must be shielded from the contact of abusive fathers, writes Anna Moore.
Why I took a stand against selfish divorce
Geldof asked to save family courts from angry fathers
Listen to mother
Mary Riddell: If the government wants women to have more children it will have to make their lives easier.
Cot deaths and justice
John Sweeney Crown prosecutors use Sir Roy Meadow as their expert witness in infant fatalities. They shouldn't.
Call for an end to cot death court anguish
As Trupti Patel is cleared of killing her babies, experts urge overhaul of way bereaved mothers are treated.
Leader: Put children first
The love that put doctors' claims on trial
Clark case threatens cot death inquiries
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