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Cheeky youths collar Gordon Brown for photo-op

After 21 years in a freezer, baby boy will be buried against his parents’ wishes

Baby in mortuary since 1987 to be buried by council

Search for boy missing in river

Judges ban jail restraints after child deaths

'We looked away for seconds and our little girl drowned', reveal heartbroken parents of dead toddler

Children as young as 11 should have lessons on how to put on a condom, says government report

Millionaire father Clark Rockefeller abducts his daughter Reigh Boss

Sikh teenager Sarika Watkins-Singh wins right to wear bangle

'Proud to be Welsh and a Sikh'. Schoolgirl wins court battle to wear religious bangle

Tory plan to smash 'glass walls' around impoverished children

Fourteen-year-old Sikh girl wins High Court battle to wear religious bangle at school

'Stop mummy!' Child, 5, banged on windows to tell passers-by that mother was drink-driving

Remains of five children found at Jersey children's home

Jersey murder inquiry 'unlikely'

Remains of five children found at Jersey care home - but killers will escape justice

Paedophile, 22, posed as a schoolboy to abduct and have sex with 13-year-old girl

MPs slam YouTube for not doing enough to protect children from 'dark side' of internet

British girl Cara Burke found 'dismembered in suitcase' in Brazil

Boyfriend held after British girl's torso found in case in Brazil

Man 'admits Brazil girl murder'

Brazilian lover of British girl 'took pictures of her dismembered body for friends' and said 'it was just like cutting beef'

Jersey children's bones may never give up their secrets

Jersey mystery: police find remains of five children but may abandon murder inquiry

Mother killed son and herself 'to spite father'

Children at risk of violence after failures by family courts

Public 'over-worried by bullying'

Evil mother who killed son, 5, to spite her ex left note saying: 'I told you I would make you pay'

Girl, 15, who weighs 33-stone, heads for US 'fat camp' in desperate bid to save her life

Education:

Schools still waiting for Sats results

A-level exams should start at Easter, says admissions chief

Call to give schools pay opt-out

Parents to receive 'fat reports' from schools as BMA warns one in four children will be obese by 2020

Disadvantaged teenagers offered £400 for after-school activities

Teachers still in the dark over new diplomas, union leader says

Expensive makeover

New diplomas in chaos weeks before launch SATs company barred from pupils' appeals

Police to be drafted into schools to cut violence, minister says

Minister: Every school can have a police officer Schools 'should have own police'

Wentworth College to close as schools fall victim to credit crunch

Teachers encouraged to compensate for parenting 'downward spiral'

Teachers' leader attacks 'greedy' parents

Sats fiasco: Sats results to be published on time

Pupils skip school for holidays

Sats to be published as scheduled

Private schools hit by the credit crunch - six close, dozens struggle

International:

Turkish school collapse kills 13

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