Illegal migrants' children denied access to education and housing - report
Report published by the Coram Children's Legal Centre finds tougher immigration stance is denying children basic rights
January 2013
Council adoption services at risk from 'heavy-handed' shake-up
Plan to privatise care service and strip it from local authorities 'slow' to find families, will hurt vulnerable young, say critics
January 2012
Unhappy childhoods afflict one in 10 youngsters, finds Children's Society
Survey of 30,000 children aged eight to 16 pinpoints family relationships and 'materialistic traps' behind low well-being
November 2011
Childcare credit reform 'will penalise some women'
Women working nearly full-time and second earners stand to lose out despite coalition's attempt to court female voters
March 2010
Bonuses for teacher colleges that send top graduates to tough schools
£1,000 payment is aimed at breaking the stranglehold leafy suburbs have over the best new teaching talent
November 2009
We all hate Ofsted, right?
Michele Ledda
Michele Ledda: The regulator is a convenient hook for our anger, but really it's responding to our failure to take responsibility for children
October 2009
Barry's Balls 'bully' beef
Michael White
Michael White: Sheerman is right about Ed Balls being 'a bit of a bully': Brownites have always been enforcers – as Brown should know
June 2009
George Osborne and Ed Balls trade blows over spending plans
Shadow chancellor attacks government spending plans as children's secretary says choice for voters at the election will be Labour investment versus Tory cuts
Beverley Hughes to step down as MP
Children's minister annouces resignation for 'family' reasons
Balls under attack for scapegoating social workers after Baby P
Local government leader lashes out at children's secretary Ed Balls for pandering to tabloid 'feeding frenzy'
April 2009
Heart to heart
Children's secretary Ed Balls is given 'a good grilling' by two 18-year-old young people who are sceptical about politicians and the government's policies. But, asks Jessica Shepherd, can he win them over?
March 2009
At risk from the registers?
Among a proliferation of government databases, the three causing greatest concern over legality, privacy and consent were set up to protect children. By Liz Lightfoot
Laming report: Reaction in quotes
Reactions from local government, teaching unions, politicians and charity and children's services heads to Laming's child protection recommendations
Children's directors 'have job from hell'
Role of single head for education and children's social services could lead to schools being overlooked, say school and college leaders
February 2009
Balls: 'I did right thing over Baby P'
Open thread
Does Shoesmith have a case?
'Reckless' minister has put children at risk – Shoesmith
Punishing times
'When a dead child is known to us, that's the biggest horror. We knew the size of that'
The blame game: how death of a toddler led to dismissal
