Covid teams can vaccinate pupils against parents’ wishes, schools told

Guidelines say health staff can decide whether children receive jab without parental consent, as headteachers fear protestsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHealthcare staff can decide whether children get a Covid vaccine agai…

Lockdown has made UK families reconsider the cost of childcare – and they’re furious | Gaby Hinsliff

Somehow we have ended up with a system that’s too expensive for parents, but not lucrative enough to pay staff properlyBuild the tower up, only to knock it to the floor. When my son was tiny, he could play that game for hours. As he got older, often it…

‘They came for my daughter’: Afghan single mothers face losing children under Taliban

Life for single mothers in Afghanistan has always been marred by stigma and poverty. Now with the Taliban in control, what few protections they had have disappearedThe day after Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, fell to the Tali…