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    Sharing the Load
    School bullying leaves families hamstrung and helpless – so what can parents do?

    Saretta Lee
    It’s heartbreaking and there’s no blueprint, but here’s what I say when parents ask what to do when something seems wrong
  • A teenager

    Meta to put under-18 Instagram users into new ‘teen accounts’

  • Teenagers drinking beer

    The kids are all right when they don’t drink

  • Alan Rushton

    Other lives
    Alan Rushton obituary

  • Senay Boztas

    British children the least happy in Europe – and Dutch kids the happiest? Don’t believe the hype

    Senay Boztas
  • Private schools urged to share grounds to help UK children access green spaces

  • Tinder’s School of Swipe is a solid first step – but online dating safety has a long way to go

    Lisa Portolan
  • A child under a blanket playing with a smartphone

    The Guardian view on children and smartphones: setting some limits is a good idea

    Editorial: Mobile phone use is not the biggest issue facing schools – or society. But device-free time is important
  • Ketamine in its powdered form

    Young people addicted to ketamine a national problem, says UK expert

    Situation potentially fuelled by people unable to access mental health services self-medicating, clinic founder says
  • £20 niotes stuffed into a blue piggy bank

    Automatically enrol young staff into workplace pension schemes, says IFS

    Thinktank says with up to 40% of staff on track for inadequate funds even 16-year-olds should be signed up
  • A survey by child poverty charity Buttle UK found half of families in poverty were having to sleep on the floor.

    Poorest families in UK lack beds and are sleeping on floors, charity warns

    Study by Buttle UK found most families had skipped a meal and many parents said they had given their bed to a child
  • Year 11 pupils Eddie Sheppard, Arthur Hall and James Burns

    Academy chain with 35,000 pupils to be first in England to go phone-free

  • Vicki Dean, principal of Tenbury High academy

    How going phone-free taught pupils at English secondary ‘to socialise, old school’

  • A group of teenagers using mobile phones

    Useless, beneficial, a social-life killer: teens weigh in on Australia’s plan for child age limits on social media

  • The kids of the Kabin Crew and the Lisdoonvarna Crew in brightly coloured clothes and hats posing on a bus

    Today in Focus
    Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit – podcast

  • Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew.

    ‘They put Cork on the map!’: what the kids behind rap sensation The Spark did next

  • Stephen Harrison

    Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can gen Z save it?

    Stephen Harrison
  • Whether it’s climbing or another activity, it’s healthy to challenge yourself.

    University Guide 2025
    ‘You don’t have to be good’: the lazy student’s guide to getting fit

  • Yellowing, transparent skin on a hand and forearm

    Science Weekly
    Transparent skin, bird flu, and why girls’ brains aged during Covid: the week in science – podcast

  • A person opening a bottle of wine with a corkscrew

    Death of the corkscrew? Only 27% of young people in UK own one, report says

    Prevalence of screw-top bottles and abstinence among young people blamed for falling popularity of gadget
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