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James Tapper
Medical students make ‘landmark’ breakthrough on deadliest child brain cancer
Sun 14 Jun 2026
The Observer Leader
The Observer view: A manifesto for children
Sun 14 Jun 2026
Tim Adams
Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘We’ve treated a generation of children now at school with carelessness’
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Lemn Sissay: ‘My foster parents taught me that if you are loved, you will be destroyed’
Sat 13 Jun 2026
Frank Bowling
‘Drawing as a boy was one of the most important things I did’
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Anna Leszkiewicz
Laura Marling: how motherhood changed my tune
Fri 12 Jun 2026
John Naughton
Online child safety is not just a tech problem – it’s a political one
Fri 12 Jun 2026
Ellen Peirson-Hagger
Inside York’s ‘school of sanctuary’
Thu 11 Jun 2026
Katherine Cowles
Michael Morpurgo on 20 years of War Horse
Thu 11 Jun 2026
Rachel Sylvester
‘Safe’ in their rooms, children are being caught in a global grooming pandemic
Sun 7 Jun 2026
James Tapper
Jeanette Dickson: combative chair of the royal medical colleges
Sun 31 May 2026
Rachel Sylvester
The crisis in Britain’s youth justice system: how is the government going to fix it?
Sun 31 May 2026
Rachel Sylvester
‘Social media is killing our children’: rise in violence bolsters call for under-16 ban
Sun 24 May 2026
Lucy Harley-McKeown
Steven Bartlett to launch AI-generated show for children
Sun 24 May 2026
John Simpson
Father calls report on five-year-old son’s hospital death a ‘whitewash’
Sun 17 May 2026
John Simpson
Prestigious Guernsey college opens investigation into child sexual abuse
Sun 19 Apr 2026
John Simpson
Arson attacks on Jewish targets may be linked to group recruiting teens on Snapchat
Sat 18 Apr 2026
Lucy Greenwell
The tragic end to a foundling’s search for her family
Sun 12 Apr 2026
James Tapper
The DNA detective who helps crack family mysteries
Sun 5 Apr 2026
Lucy Greenwell
A foundling’s search for answers continues: ‘Please back off and let sleeping dogs lie’
Sun 5 Apr 2026
Liz Cookman
Ukraine’s teen saboteurs groomed by Russia to target their homeland
Tue 31 Mar 2026
Rachel Sylvester
‘People died’: Meta failed to heed warnings about harms to children
Sun 29 Mar 2026
Letters to the editor
School-ready children? Ask a health visitor
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Brett Wigdortz
A child who doesn’t know how to play won’t know how to learn
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Emma Haslett
Hoping for a ‘perfect’ baby? Genetic testing startups lure parents to US
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Chloe Hadjimatheou
Why my book on mothers battling for custody was pulped – not once, but twice
Sun 1 Mar 2026
John Simpson
Viral memes fuel hysteria over school fight clubs
Sat 28 Feb 2026
James Tapper
Measles outbreak raises fears of increase in fatal brain disease among children
Sun 22 Feb 2026
James Tapper
Pausing puberty blockers trial seems political, not scientific, says Cass
Sun 22 Feb 2026
Eva Wiseman
Why slime is the start of the slippery slope for tween skincare
Tue 17 Feb 2026
Heidi Thomas
Measles is back. We need herd immunity, not herd instinct
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Patricia Clarke
Young people turning to Childline for help with AI dependency
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Catherine Neilan
Hundreds of children in illegal care homes is ‘what failure looks like’
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Melanie Reid
A cold childhood casts a long shadow
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Patricia Clarke
A global ‘coalition of decency’ could tackle X over sexualised images
Sat 10 Jan 2026
Amber Rudd
Children can’t escape the horrors of social media. Ban it for under-16s
Wed 7 Jan 2026
Martha Gill
Libraries are essential to help us navigate the world
Sun 28 Dec 2025
Rachel Sylvester
‘Children need loving, lifelong connections. That’s what this is’
Fri 26 Dec 2025
James Tapper
The care home gold rush
Sun 21 Dec 2025
