Getty ImagesChild Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020Two Metropolitan Police officers who conducted the "humiliating" strip-search of a 15-year-old ...

Elin AlexanderBBC Wales NewsBBCMarianne Barry, 29, believes there is a lack of understanding about PMDDIf 29-year-old Marianne Barry doesn't take the contraceptive pill each day, she could have symptoms ...

The government's child poverty strategy, which had been due for publication in the spring, has been delayed.The Child Poverty Taskforce is still working on the strategy and has been ...

Getty ImagesThe Llandudno Victorian Exchange, held on the main streets of the town, describes itself as "Wales' largest free family event"A child was taken to hospital after an incident ...

Dominic HughesGlobal health correspondentGetty ImagesEscherichia coli bacteria - also known as E. coli, the bug that causes food poisoning - is one of the bacteria that is showing greater ...

Victoria GillScience correspondentKevin Church/BBC NewsResearchers are using specially designed games and brain-scanning 'hats' to work out how children develop key skills Two-year-old Henry is completely transfixed by the iPad ...

Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins.The Ear, Nose and ...

Keiron TourishBBC News NI north west reporterBBCThe mural is being unveiled in the Bogside in County Londonderry where Nell McCafferty was fromA new mural has been completed in Londonderry ...

Child criminal exploitation and "cuckooing" are set to become specific criminal offences as part of new legislation being introduced to Parliament next week.The Crime and Policing Bill will also ...

A former cub scout leader has been jailed for sexually assaulting children as young as seven years old spanning nearly 30 years.Ian Silvester, of Locks Hill in Portslade, East ...

BBCLatonya only learned she had a Child Trust Fund when a tutor at her college told her about the schemeLatonya Skye-Paterson had no idea a Child Trust Fund had ...

Pushing for a new national inquiry into grooming gangs by halting the progress of a bill aimed at bolstering child safety is "utterly sickening", the education secretary has said.Bridget ...