All news on the topic: Children

A Christian camp has stated it is ‘mourning the loss of 27’ campers and counselors after flash floods in Texas.

A four-year-old boy killed after a gravestone toppled onto him has been named by his devastated family.

At least 24 people have died and more than 20 children at a summer camp are missing amid ‘catastrophic’ flooding of the Guadalupe River in central Texas.

Prosecutors are contemplating new charges against child murderer Lucy Letby concerning additional deaths and non-fatal collapses of infants at hospitals where she was employed.

A nine-year-old boy and his seven-year-old sister have been found living hidden away on a remote farm still wearing nappies and only able to speak in their own primitive language.

The family of seven-year-old Leonna Ruka have described her as ’the light in their lives’ in a heartbreaking tribute following her death in an accident at Chalkwell Park, Southend

At least eight girls as young as 11 were sexually assaulted in a public swimming pool in Hesse, Germany.

Residents in Southend are demanding to know why the giant tree - the oldest in the area - hadn’t been cut down before it fell on Saturday, killing a seven-year-old child

Five children have been taken to hospital after a tree fell at a park in Essex.

A toddler who was riding his toy car and hit a wasps nest was stung more than 150 times and is fighting for his life.

A college bus crashed into a river after the brakes failed and the accelerator jammed, a witness has said.

Dozens of children have been injured after a primary school in Germany was hit with tear gas.

Excavations have started in the search for nearly 800 babies believed to be buried in a mass grave at a home for unmarried mothers in Ireland.

9,544 offences were recorded last year by children aged nine or younger, but police could not take action - crimes included rapes, arson, making death threats and drug and racially motivated offences

A five-year-old boy, who ended up in the hospital after being attacked by a "pocket bully," was told that it was his fault.

Two individuals have been charged with murder following the death of a four-year-old boy in a collision between two pickup trucks.

A 24-year-old man is in a critical condition and a one-year-old girl suffered minor injuries in the crash involving two pickup trucks, Kent Police said.

A schoolgirl who died when a classmate threw a javelin towards her has been pictured for the first time.

A significant search is underway following an incident where two children encountered difficulty in the River Thames.

Jacob Calland’s devastated mother Carly has started a campaign to prevent others from dying in an e-scooter accident like the one that took the life of her 14-year-old son in Wythenshawe.

Children in Gaza are "barely staying alive" and forced to "eat grass and animal fodder" to survive, a global children’s charity leader has warned.