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  • A vial of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

    MMR jab uptake among young people in England up by 23% since 2023, says NHS

  • Emma Beddington

    What have I learned from 20 years of parenting? Never to underestimate how wrong I can be

    Emma Beddington
  • A teenage girl sitting in a dark doorway with light coming from an adjoining room

    Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils in England

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    Shelf life: why are toy shops full of horrors these days?

    Eva Wiseman
  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    It’s immoral to push children into poverty, but that’s what the benefits cap does

    Torsten Bell
    Claimants were supposed to be deterred from having more children, but the policy has made families poorer, not smaller
  • Sean and Emily with their birth mother, Sara, outside her house in Santiago, Chile

    She was told her babies were dead. Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on?

    Four families torn apart by Chile’s illegal adoption scandal finally found each other decades later. They describe the emotional moment they met – and how they pieced together the lives they had spent apart
  • A woman looking out of her window.

    Man who raped his wife tried to convince court he was victim of domestic abuse

    Claim of parental alienation made to ‘distress and frighten’, English court told
  • Close-up of naloxone held by person in hands

    Baby dies and two others hospitalized in fentanyl overdoses in Washington state

  • David Bell

    The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended

    David Bell
  • Secondary school pupils walking in a corridor

    Just two in five pupils in England always feel safe in school, survey finds

  • A young woman in a headscarf sits on a park bench

    Rights and freedom
    Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban

  • Teenage girl in summery wear enjoying a Heineken, face masked by a hat

    We know how to deter British children from alcohol, say experts, after concerns over WHO report

  • ‘Long before my son was born, I dreamed of him’ … Suzanne Scanlon and her son

    The forever wound: how could I become a mother when my own mother died so young?

  • Frances Ryan

    Smacking a child is just an act of violence. Why do England and Northern Ireland still allow it?

    Frances Ryan
  • Alcoholic drinks on a table

    Great Britain has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

  • a statue of the Virgin Mary at a church

    Exclusive: US archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police

    In criminal investigation, New Orleans judge demands paper trail from archbishop Gregory Aymond all the way to the Vatican
  • Mother and child are sitting on windowsill.

    Children in care – there’s one in every classroom

    Letter: Children can enter and exit care repeatedly, making accurate data hard to obtain, writes Dr Louise Mc Grath-Lone
    • TikTok reward-to-watch feature suspended after EU threats to block it

    • Lord Field of Birkenhead obituary

    • The Guardian documentary
      Pressure and Release: horse therapy for young Indigenous Australians

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