Thousands 'spared poor childcare'
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Nearly 200 childcare providers in England are no longer registered after failing their Ofsted inspections.
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Number of children taught in schools with more than 2,000 pupils has trebled since Labour came to power
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Heads say England's school funding means pupils in disadvantaged areas are missing out.
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Political leaders the world over are failing the most vulnerable of their people -- children, the UN child rights organization UNICEF said on Thursday.
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WAR, poverty and HIV/Aids are causing more than half of the worldâs children to suffer, effectively denying them a childhood, according to a report today.
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Millions of children go without formal education in former Soviet countries, a Unicef report claims.
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Sick babies are being turned away from many neonatal units in England because of a shortage of specialist nurses and cots, a report said Wednesday.
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Absent parents refusing to support their children could be 'named and shamed' on a UK government website.
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One in six Europeans is living below national poverty thresholds, with children particularly vulnerable, according to the results of an official study.
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Not enough people are aware of a government fund to help the UK's poorest citizens, a report says.
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The number of children in schools of more than 2,000 pupils has more than trebled since 1997, the Tories say.
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Unicef, the UN agency with the task of ensuring children&#39;s survival, was accused yesterday of not doing enough to prevent the suffering and death of millions of youngsters around the world.
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Government efforts to tackle child poverty are failing to help poor parents who work, a think tank says.
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A charity says UK children have less chance of improving their social standing than those in any other country.
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Millions of children live in poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia despite economic growth there, a UN report says.
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More than 90,000 children in Scotland live in "severe poverty", according to a study by a children's charity.
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Results of a large Danish study  confirm that young children who attend group childcare,  especially those without siblings, are at increased risk for  catching respiratory infections compared with their  counterparts who are cared for at home.