Scottish Government - Number of children starting, ceasing and being looked after by children characteristics. Information on children eligible for aftercare support (eg economic activity).

Children want adults to control the Internet for them. They didn't ask any child I've ever met, thats for sure. Well, they say it's what children want. Here's the definition of children: The survey of 686 children aged between four and 20, from varying social backgrounds, indicated that 45 per cent think adults should sit next to or near young people when they are on the intern...

Ulster Unionist Party spokesperson on children's issues, Roy Beggs MLA, told the Assembly today that the sexual exploitation of children and young people is one of the main risks posed to children who go missing from care.

A committee of MPs has produced a report saying that the British government get more involved in the parenting of “disadvantaged” children. The report is looking at disadvantaged children in social care but the term “disadvantaged” has plenty of scope for expansion into other areas - children with learning difficulties, children with behavioural problems, children from

Children's services directors were today urged to pump money into early intervention projects in schools to ensure all children and young people reach their potential. The children's secretary, Ed Balls, told directors of children's services: "The future of young children is in all of your hands." Speaking at the children's and adults social care conference in Liverpool today, ...

A quarter of children have looked at pornography in the last year, according to LSE research used in a Panorama programme about the sexualisation of young children.

‘Making sure children are safe, well and receive a good education is our most serious responsibility… However, there are concerns that some children are not receiving the education they need. And in some extreme cases, home education could be used as a cover for abuse. We cannot allow this to happen and are committed to doing all we can to ensure children are safe, wherever they are e...

There has been much discussion today about the new report from the Children's Society, which claims to have found that today's children are less happy than the children of past generations. The report raises issues of parenting, education, child psychology...

25 national organisations including the Children’s Society, the TUC, Barnardo’s and Action for Children have come together to call for a change in the Government’s plans for a substantial cut to welfare support for disabled children under the new “Universal Credit”. Sign our petition! The new system will result in many of these children losing up to £1400 per ye...

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) ______________...