Sometimes a story comes along that is literally jaw-dropping. One of those is in today's Daily Mail. As part of a programme teaching children about the Holocaust, teachers at St Hilary's Primary School in East Kilbride took an unbelievably irresponsible...

'Mosquito' devices which emit high-pitched whine to help disperse teenagers from street corners could be banned by the European Union on the grounds that they infringe children's human rights.

Anybody who’s been following the tragic case of Ashleigh Hall will know that suddenly it’s the security of Facebook – not the failures of Merseyside Police – that have grabbed the headlines. This follows criticisms by the police that Facebook does not carry a Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) button – a link children can hit if they fear they are being g...

Erotic underwear advertisements should be banned from London buses to protect children from being bombarded with sexual images, a Conservative MP has said.

CHILDREN'S minister Adam Ingram was today outlining Scottish Government action to help beat cyber bullying, internet fraud and online grooming.

In the latest manifestation of the Religion of Peace, 500 Nigerian men women and children were murdered in the city of Jos by Muslim mobs: Survivors and human rights organizations said that more than 500 people — many of them young children from an ancient ethnic Christian group known as the Berom — were hacked to death with machetes, axes and daggers in the villages of Dogo Nahawa, Ra...

Cornwall Labour Party has welcomed Labour's £69 million investment in Cornwall's schools, announced today by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Jude Robinson said: "We are proud of Labour's investment in our children, our schools and our county. The best education is absolutely vital to providing a better future and more opportunities. "From Penzance to Pool, C...

That’s the title of a pamphlet from Liberal Democrat Equality Spokesperson Lynne Featherstone and published by the Runnymede Trust. It starts: Over half of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black African children in the UK are growing up in poverty. Infant mortality is more than twice as high among Pakistani and Caribbean groups than white British children. Almost every ethnic

Thousands of primary school children are being taught in supersized classes of more than 40 pupils, according to figures. There are tens of thousands of qualified teachers (and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it were 100,000 or more) who already work for the education system but never actually do any educating. They’re sitting in the

The shadow schools secretary has said he would like to see 'more and more' children who go to independent schools educated in the state sector instead