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This weeks news

Vulnerable children failed by notification scheme and 'private fostering'

Over-cautious parents stop play

Boy dies after sand tunnel collapses

Boy, 16, dies after sand tunnel he dug on beach collapses on top of him

At last, secrets of Maddie police search are unlocked as secrecy laws are lifted

Brazilian beast 'took police to the wrong river' in search for murdered Briton's remains

Boy dies in Cefn Sidan after tunnel dug in sand collapses on top of him

McCanns hope for end to speculation as police release complete file on Madeleine

How Portuguese police tried to force Gerry to confess with a DNA trap

New play looks at life after care

Desperate father 'dug with his bare hands' in failed bid to rescue teenager, 16, buried alive in sand dunes

Case study: Parents’ new moral maze

Mother throws children from Dorset house fire

Madeleine McCann case: Police accused over 'Maddy sighting'

British police feared Madeleine was 'stolen to order' by Belgian paedophile ring

Facebook: Children evade social websites' age limits

Bull terrier savages seven-year-old

International:

Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl may be charged with slavery

Police free kidnap girl Reigh by tricking father Clark Rockefeller

Children trampled as 145 die in Hindu temple stampede

To the family in row 3: you left your daughter behind at the airport

British pupils robbed at gunpoint on Guatemala school trip to 'Bandit Land'

Surrogacy orphan trapped in red tape after mothers abandon her

Politics:

Tories attack education fund for deprived children

Lib Dem crime strategy unveiled

Health:

Child flu jabs 'protect everyone'

The premature baby who was kept alive by tickling her feet

Home-made dialysis machine saved baby Millie Kelly's life

Health: Official letters to warn parents if their child is obese or overweight

Schools to warn parents their children are overweight in bid to cut obesity rate

Don't call the kids obese: Parents to get 'prissy' letters telling them their children are overweight

The boy, 15, who 'died from an asthma attack' after drinking Vicks cough mixture

Parents warned over measles epidemic

Measles fears prompt MMR campaign

Education:

SATs scores ‘too generous for 1 in 3 pupils’

Sats results show small rise in achievement

Sats exams misleading, say majority of schools

Primary pupils fail to master the 3 Rs

Tories offer 'vouchers' to buy school place

Test results record small gains SATs results show improvement in English and maths - but teachers say marks should never have been published

Teen Crime:

Teenager shot dead in London supermarket

Teenager shot dead in London shop

Teenager shot dead in supermarket

Boy, 18, shot dead in execution-style attack 'after he entered rival gang's territory'

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