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Exclusions in primary schools increase due to racist behaviour – Read more from the BBC News. 

Children are at risk of being contacted by strangers through smart toys, an investigation by Which? has found. Security flaws were found in a number

The number of children looked after in England is up 4 per cent to 78,150 at 31 March 2019. This continues the increases seen in

Teachers are fearful that an increasing number of their pupils will go hungry this Christmas according to a poll by the Nation Education Union. 63%

Teenagers placed in an unregulated home in Birmingham have claimed residents were often short of food and sometimes not given bedding. Councils paid up to

The number of children in England identified by councils as having been abused for reasons associated with witchcraft has risen by a third in the

The number of children in foster care rose by 3 per cent in the year to 31 March 2019. At that date there were almost

A rise in family conflict and hardship is behind the heightened pressure on child protection services, according to a new survey of councillors responsible for

The Children’s Commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have called for “the full, direct and urgent incorporation of the UN Convention on the