All news on the topic: Children

A river otter dragged a child on a dock underwater and viciously attacked the mother who intervened in the near-drowning.

The Thirlwall Inquiry heard that doctors did not discuss neonatal mortality or concerns raised about Letby until the new year following a pivotal board meeting in 2016

The girl’s family has described how the brain damage she suffered in the attack has affected her ability to communicate, and she needs to be fed through a tube.

Tributes have poured in after a six-year-old girl was killed in a catastrophic house fire.

A girl, four, has been mauled by two ‘XL Bullies’ while out in a park with her mum in Sheffield.

An investigation is ongoing at Great Ormond Street Hospital after parents of young patients who were treated by the same surgeon raised concerns over their children’s health

More than 300 bodies including hundreds of children and babies have been found in a mass grave in Oldham.

Impact of abolishing policy would be dented unless overall cap is reformed, figures show

Three children and a man have been found dead at a house in Surrey.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a child was found dead at a house in Swansea.

A residential street in Oldbury was sealed off overnight following a stabbing as emergency services and police rushed to Lovett Avenue in Lion Farm estate at around 4pm on Thursday, August 29

Man, 20, jailed for trying to instigate riot in Huddersfield; boy, 15, admits throwing glass bottle in unrest in Bolton

A nine-year-old girl needed emergency surgery after a dog mauled her face, a court has heard.

You might be looking forward to your children returning to school this month, but chances are your bank balance is not.

A young girl has been stabbed in a block of flats in Christchurch, Dorset.

A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have been asked to remove books from their shelves.

Hannah Jacobs died within hours of drinking a hot chocolate that was supposed to be made with soya milk in February 2022, a coroner is told. Her mother says she informed staff her daughter had a severe dairy allergy when ordering the drink.

Boy was found in water near canal towpath in Ettingshall and taken to hospital, where he died

Changes to the curriculum could mean schoolchildren analyse articles in English lessons to weed out fabricated stories, learn how to identify fake news in computer classes and analyse statistics in maths.

A six-month-old baby has died after being left in a hot car for seven hours.