The children’s commissioners for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have combined forces in a joint report to the United Nations to condemn the treatment of children in the United Kingdom. Stuart Weir reports.

A recent report by the Children’s Commissioner for England has highlighted failings in the UK’s treatment of unaccompanied child asylum seekers at asylum screening units. Cassandra Cavallaro reports.

A proposal from the police could see children as young as five on the national DNA database – even where no crime has been committed. Richard Taylor reports.

Life for children in Britain is incredibly difficult, writes Richard Seymour, caught as they are between increasing poverty and violent abuse on the one hand and relentless demonisation and authoritarian “clamp downs” on the other.

Richard Garner on the recent efforts by the Ministry of Defence to distribute propaganda to school-children, in the form of lesson plans about the Iraq war.

John McDonnell on New Labour’s failure to adequately deal with child poverty, a failure the new budget will do little to address.

The government’s ‘literacy strategy’ takes all the fun out of reading and doesn’t work. Michael Rosen proposes an alternative approach.

The Home Office is seeking to introduce legislation which would allow them to remove Unaccompanied Asylum Seeker Children (UASCs) back to their country of origin. Liz Smith reports.

Thousands of children across the UK have had their fingerprints and DNA taken without explicit informed parental consent. Tamanna Kalhar speaks to Terri Dowty of Action on Rights for Children.

Teenage crime cannot be solved by alienating teenagers, argues Mahta Hassanzadeh.

Terry Wrigley looks at some elements of the government’s new ‘Children’s Plan’.

New Labour’s latest plan to improve education misses the elephant in the room by failing to address the unequal and fiercely competitive society that has had such a disastrous impact upon Britain’s children, writes the IWCA.