All news on the topic: Children

Leanne Lucas and Heidi Barlow are believed to have saved more than a dozen children in the dance class of 25 that was targeted by a knifeman in Southport on Monday morning

Former BBC presenter charged with three offences after Met police investigation

Gavin Peterson, 12, was found dead at his father’s home in Utah on July 9 after police were called to the house as the boy was ’vomiting’ and ’not breathing’ for days on end

Acasia Welburn pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual activity with child by person in a position of trust

Nakash Malik, 13, 11-year-old girl Aayat Malik and seven-year-old boy Muhammad Hanan Malik died in the fire at a property in Newham, east London, the Metropolitan Police said

A woman has been charged after a baby was hit and killed by a car outside a hospital while strapped into her pram.

Joshua Hillstead was pulled from the River Arrow in Warwickshire but died following complications resulting from drowning, police say. In a separate incident, officers searching for a 16-year-old boy in a West Midlands reservoir have discovered a body.

West Midlands Ambulance Services rushed to the scene at the River Arrow in Alcester, Warwickshire, on Monday evening with the boy later taken to Birmingham Children’s Hospital

A 10-year-old child is in hospital after they were bitten by an XL Bully dog.

An 11-year-old girl has tragically died after falling from the seventh floor of a hotel she was staying at with her family while on holiday in the Spanish island of Majorca

Study sparks new calls for public inquiry into ‘scandal’ of missing migrant children in UK

A "very strong and motivated" mother reportedly saved her third child from a house fire in East Ham, London that killed her two other children and sent other family members to the hospital

Police have been scouring site in Mukuru since mutilated corpses of at least six women were found on Friday

Police have identified the body found in the River Mersey as 14-year-old Daniel Halliday, who went missing after jumping waves and swimming near a radar tower on Crosby Beach

Several fire engines rushed to the blaze in East Ham, London, in the early hours of Saturday morning, with five people taken to hospital and one child sadly killed

A Nigerian court postponed on Thursday the trial of an 83-year-old woman, founder of an orphanage, accused of buying and selling babies under her care.

Queen Camilla, who is known for her love of books, held a special event at Clarence House today, where she met six volunteers known as ’Literacy Champions’ to celebrate 30 years of The National Literacy Trust

Rachel de Souza to visit processing facility in Kent as source claims Home Office guidelines are not being followed there

The boy was reportedly among 50 pupils visiting West Wittering during a school trip, with other teens looking visibly distressed as they watched him being airlifted to hospital