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 ...

Getty ImagesVictims "clearly want action" rather than a new national inquiry into grooming gangs, the woman who led a seven-year probe into child sexual abuse has said.Prof Alexis Jay ...

A man in his 30s has been arrested following an aggravated burglary during which a gun was pointed at a child in Ahoghill, County Antrim.Police said they received a ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced he will step down from his role following a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church of England.The report ...

Getty ImagesMegan Fox has announced she and US rapper Machine Gun Kelly are expecting their first child together. The Transformers actress tagged the musician in a photo which showed ...

Four people, including a two-year-old child, have died while attempting to cross the English Channel, French authorities say.The authorities said they were found "unconscious" and were likely "trampled to ...