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With the launch of National Childhood Obesity Week the government must set out a strategy for dealing with the issue

Leading provider responds to govenment’s axing of child trust funds by halting new accounts

Dr Charlotte Ritchie argues (Letters, 30 June) that the Demos report adds little to what we already know: “that if care were marvellous, children might be all right”. It says nothing of the sort.

So Martin Narey thinks more children need to be taken into care (Report, 28 June).

Family courts should recognise it’s not always mothers that shoulder the lion’s share of parental responsibilities

One in three children who should be taken into care are being left with inadequate parents, says chief executive of children’s charity

Campaigners urge Gove to extend free school meals to the working poor, in wake of Ofsted report

Midwives criticise recommendation by health watchdog that all expectant mothers in the UK should have carbon monoxide tests

Osborne was expected to means test or tax child benefit but the universal payment will see a significant real term cut until 2014

From April 2011 families with an income of more than £40,000 will see their eligibility for child tax credits reduced, George Osborne announces