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Children

These Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their birth families 'before it's too late'
Marie Maubouche
Adoption

These Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their birth families 'before it's too late'

These are the stories of Vietnamese adoptees and their families searching to learn more about their roots and each other
Refugee children deserve our compassion – and a chance to build safe, happy lives
Children survey the ruins in Khuzaa, Gaza, in 2015.
Lynn Perry

Refugee children deserve our compassion – and a chance to build safe, happy lives

Father's Day: Why it's time to start talking about single dads
Fathers Day

Father's Day: Why it's time to start talking about single dads

This adorable robot is helping us learn more about children, autism and the way humans connect
Autism

This adorable robot is helping us learn more about children, autism and the way humans connect

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children
Film

New film Lollipop powerfully lays bare the 'inhumane' way mothers are cut off from their children

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'I was dying in silence': How childcare becomes a daily battle for survival for migrant families
Immigration

'I was dying in silence': How childcare becomes a daily battle for survival for migrant families

Reform councillor describing some children in care as 'evil' proves how broken the system really is
Reform UK's Andy Osborn during a Cambridgeshire County Council meeting. Credit: Youtube / Terry Galloway
Sophia Alexandra Hall

Reform councillor describing some children in care as 'evil' proves how broken the system really is

Kids are struggling with anxiety and panic attacks. Could nature be the answer?
Abby with chickens
John Rose

Kids are struggling with anxiety and panic attacks. Could nature be the answer?

The UK must renew funding for children's vaccines – or else millions of young lives will be at risk
Michael Sheldrick

The UK must renew funding for children's vaccines – or else millions of young lives will be at risk

This is how much caring for a disabled child really costs
Mikey and his sisters Mika and Sky
Dr Abigail Dunn

This is how much caring for a disabled child really costs

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the half term
kids eat free/ easter holidays
Cost of living crisis

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the half term

People are sharing their childhood dreams after TV's Alice Roberts said she wanted to be a horse
Childhood dreams

People are sharing their childhood dreams after TV's Alice Roberts said she wanted to be a horse

The Traitors' Ash Bibi on fleeing a violent home for a women's refuge at 16: 'There's always hope'
Ash Bibi
Domestic violence

The Traitors' Ash Bibi on fleeing a violent home for a women's refuge at 16: 'There's always hope'

One in five social workers have removed a child from their family due to horror homes
Housing

One in five social workers have removed a child from their family due to horror homes

Disabled children are bearing the brunt of a broken social care system – they deserve better
A man holding a child
James Watson-O'Neill

Disabled children are bearing the brunt of a broken social care system – they deserve better

One in five parents of disabled children wait more than a year to be seen by social services
Carla Alderman and her son Cameron, who have been supported by Sense. Image: Sense
Disabled children

One in five parents of disabled children wait more than a year to be seen by social services

I'm a clinical psychologist. I know just how badly racism is damaging children's mental health
anti-racist
Sanah Ahsan

I'm a clinical psychologist. I know just how badly racism is damaging children's mental health

Scrap two-child benefit cap to give local councils a much-needed cash injection, Labour told
child in waterproof jacket
Child poverty

Scrap two-child benefit cap to give local councils a much-needed cash injection, Labour told

This theatre company uses Jellycat toys to break barriers for children across the UK
The Noisy Dinosaur production from Toucan Theatre. Image of two cast members with jellycats
James Baldwin

This theatre company uses Jellycat toys to break barriers for children across the UK

More and more poor children are missing school since Covid. Here's how to get them back in class
Martin Hodge

More and more poor children are missing school since Covid. Here's how to get them back in class

DWP figures show two in five single parents are living in poverty: 'It's a terrible situation'
mother holding a baby
Ruth Talbot

DWP figures show two in five single parents are living in poverty: 'It's a terrible situation'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
It's 15 years since the UK government promised to end child poverty. Time to revive that ambition
A child eating
Alex Firth

It's 15 years since the UK government promised to end child poverty. Time to revive that ambition

'It worries me it could happen again': How Covid turned life upside down for children and young people
Text reads: Coronavirus. Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives
Dr Alison Penny

'It worries me it could happen again': How Covid turned life upside down for children and young people

BBC's Crongton is a 'celebration of Alex Wheatle's incredible life and powerful stories'
Crongton imagery
TV

BBC's Crongton is a 'celebration of Alex Wheatle's incredible life and powerful stories'

Victorian illnesses like rickets are on the rise. We need radical change to end malnutrition
Lynn Perry

Victorian illnesses like rickets are on the rise. We need radical change to end malnutrition

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