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27 December 2024

  • Tents under a tree on a sidewalk

    US saw dramatic rise in homelessness at start of 2024, housing agency says

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    My daughter will be an only child – and I’m not going to feel guilty about it

    Arwa Mahdawi

26 December 2024

  • Woman with two children walking along Torquay seafront in wet weather.

    Family drug and alcohol courts are still running and are a success

  • Ocean Adventures soft play centre, Cheddar, Somerset

    Bouncing back: UK soft play centres recover after Covid closures

25 December 2024

  • Undated handout image of Sara Sharif at the age of four.

    Sara Sharif’s murder should lead to better protection of home-schooled children

    Letters: The lack of oversight of home-schooling standards is a scandal, writes Tony Mooney, while Brian Waller says police and children’s services should have protected Sara at home and David Newton laments the 2010-15 coalition government’s dismantling of safeguards
  • Happy senior man using smartphone at home

    There’s no reason for older people to fear smartphones

    Letters: Joe Cocker and Colin Crouch respond to a letter by a 94-year-old man who wrote that adults as well as children should avoid smartphones
  • Schoolchildren queuing for food at a counter

    Free school meals ‘auto-enrolment’ scheme has fed 20,000 more children

    Twenty local authorities in England signed up eligible pupils without waiting for parents to do so

24 December 2024

  • Children from the Kabin Crew and the Lisdoonvarna Crew on a bus

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit – podcast

    Rory Carroll and Helen Pidd meet the Kabin Crew and the Lisdoonvarna Crew – creators of a song that has notched up more than a billion plays on TikTok – as they perform at the Electric Picnic music festival
  • woman wearing turquoise and sitting on chair gestures

    Part of Arkansas book ban law is unconstitutional, federal judge rules

    Ruling rejects part of governor-backed law that imposes criminal penalties on librarians for giving ‘harmful’ material to kids
  • composite image showing Ukrainian art rescuers, the statue at the Old Bailey, a baby in an incubator, Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, and illustrations of muscular bodybuilders and a sinister-looking cement works

    The long read
    The best of the long read in 2024

    Our 20 favourite pieces of in-depth reporting, essays and profiles from the year

23 December 2024

  • Anne Longfield in composite image including logos of the Centre for Young Lives, people holding a placard saying 'S E N D: they won't be there for you', and children around a table

    Send crisis: a system at breaking point
    Send provision in ‘vicious downward spiral’, says former children’s commissioner

  • Women and children gather at a refugee camp, standing before a line of tents

    Greece facing refugee ‘children’s emergency’ as arrivals double in 2024

22 December 2024

  • Multi-coloured, translucent water beads

    UK doctors warn of risk from expanding water beads marketed as toys

  • Composition design showing Matt and Ellie Partridge with Frank, a school road sign, and a classroom

    Send crisis: a system at breaking point
    ‘Fobbed off and rejected’: Send crisis takes toll on families in Birmingham

  • Composite image showing child being taught at school

    Send crisis: a system at breaking point
    £100m spent in England on failed efforts to block children’s Send support

  • Graphic with woman and child and school and court sign

    Send crisis: a system at breaking point
    Spiralling demand and shrinking budgets: why England’s Send system is buckling

  • Our rarely apologise, never resign bishops don’t deserve comfortable lives in the Lords

    Catherine Bennett

  • ‘She should have a bit of me’: the Dutch mothers fighting for their children to carry their surname

21 December 2024

  • Vickie Johnson, who left her role as a Deputy Head teacher after having children due to not being able to work flexible hours. Vickie Johnson is photographed at her home in Greater Manchester.

    ‘We need a total culture change’: the UK teacher told to work 60-hour week or leave after having baby

  • Sara Sharif at school

    Sara Sharif told social worker ‘they don’t hit me’ four years before her murder

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