Trans children and their families still often face suspicion and suppression, but attitudes are changing‘My preconceptions about trans people came from the media, and I certainly hadn’t heard of trans children. So it just flummoxed me having an assigne…
My children have had their first taste of competitive sport – and they love it | Emma Brockes
At school in New York, any whiff of competition is firmly avoided. Not so at my six-year-olds’ summer tennis campThere’s a game I play with my children that we never tire of, in which I share details – outlandish, unimaginable – of how things were in t…
The more children know of the natural world, the more they’ll want to protect it | Lucy Jones and Kenneth Greenway
Too many British children are deprived of nature. If they can’t recognise a swift, will they care if it doesn’t come back? When the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was published in early August, it confirmed what was already being…
Afghan child refugees left without support in Home Office hotels
Charities accuse the government of failing to meet young asylum seekers’ basic needs, despite care pledge Child refugees from Afghanistan are being held by the Home Office in hotels for weeks on end without shoes, spare clothes, money or access to heal…
Serious child harm cases in England rose by 20% during pandemic
Abuse more likely to have gone unseen behind closed doors during lockdowns, say authoritiesSerious child harm cases reported by councils in England rose by nearly 20% during the first year of the pandemic, including a 19% rise in child death notificati…
‘The hypocrisy is nauseating’: Wes Streeting on state school arts cuts
Shadow child poverty secretary wants all pupils to have access to arts education after decade of Tory cutsWes Streeting can’t claim to be his inner-city comp’s most famous alumni. That claim goes to the Hollywood actor John Boyega who, like the shadow …
The Guardian view on children’s care in crisis: the high price of neglect | Editorial
After years of cuts, the pandemic has left social services and the young people they support brutally exposed About the only good thing that can be said about the worsening crisis in children’s social care is that it is being talked about. The extremel…
Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts of Traal
The hide and seek skills of a two year old. (SL to a long and silly twitter image thread.)
TechScape: How the UK forced global shift in child safety policies
Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTube implement new rules … CGI CEOs … and unpleasant rightwing ‘lolz’ in KabulI bring good news: regulation works.The last month has brought a flurry of changes to major tech …
‘Let them be kids!’ Is ‘free-range’ parenting the key to healthier, happier children?
Now more than ever, children are cooped up indoors and monitored 24/7. But how can they build confidence and social skills if adults never let them out of their sight?She describes herself as having been a “fairly cautious” parent before the pandemic, …