The device could be found in nearly every living room in America between the late 1970s and the turn of the 21st century. Now ...

Exclusive: Identifying teenagers at risk could help prevent organ damage, strokes and heart attacks in early adulthood, doctors say Leading doctors have called for a national UK programme to monitor ...

All young children in the UK can now be offered protection against chickenpox for the first time on the NHS. The vaccine will be combined with the existing MMR jab, given at 12 and 18 months of age, ...

The UK Government’s Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty lands at a time when 4.5 million children are living in poverty, 31% of all children after housing costs (AHC) (2023/24). The ...

The UK government wants technology companies to block explicit images on phones and computers by default to protect children, with adults having to verify their age to create and access such content.

Alex Norris, the asylum minister, said anyone without the right to stay in the UK would be deported. He pledged to "ramp up" removals of families deemed not to be legitimate refugees by officials.

The number of children's homes in England has reached a record high - as Ofsted warns providers are focusing on cheaper housing rather than the needs of children. Ofsted, which inspects schools and ...

Nearly one in three children in a major UK city do not speak English as their first language, new statistics show. The city is home to more asylum seekers than any other local authority across the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Decision to remove children comes after they and their parents ate poisonous mushrooms and ended up in hospital The decision by an Italian court to remove three children being brought up in the woods ...

Puberty blockers for under-18s have been illegal in the UK since 2024 By Hannah Barnes A new research trial to study the impact of puberty blockers in children experiencing gender incongruence (a ...

Children born in the UK to refugee parents could be deported as part of Shabana Mahmood’s new immigration reforms, the Home Office says. These children, even if they were born in the UK, will be ...