23 h. ago Over 100 children sick in India after snake remains found in school meal

School cook suspected to have served food after removing dead snake that had fallen into it

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4 d. ago 80,000 kids in Scotland living in 'very deep poverty' as politicians told to 'up their game'

It estimated that in affected households where there are two parents and two children, they would need an additional £1,100 a month to lift them above the poverty line.

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8 d. ago 3p rise in free school meal funding will stretch school budgets, union warns

Government funding for free school meals offered to pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will rise from £2.58 to £2.61 a meal in September.

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1 week ago Children’s hospices across Scotland and RBS set £100,000 fundraising challenge

One of Scotland's most important children's charities is launching a fundraising drive with colleagues from Royal Bank of Scotland.

Economics

2 w. ago Fact check: Prematurity is the biggest global killer of children under five

There are 12 different causes of death that killed more than 100,000 children under five in 2023.

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2 w. ago Muslim children and babies' graves among up to 100 vandalised in 'Islamophobic hate crime' at cemetery

A police investigation has been launched following the ‘barbaric act’ at Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery in Watford

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2 w. ago School meal costs hiked by over 20% sparks health fears for Scots kids

The cost of lunch is now more than £579 per year in one local authority with many announcing huge rises as they struggle to balance the books.

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4 w. ago At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from southern city of Rafah in one of war’s biggest mass displacementsAn Israeli bombing of a school turned shelter in Gaza City has killed at least 27 people, rescuers said, and hundreds of thousands in the Rafah area are fleeing in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war amid Israel’s newly announced campaign to “divide up” the Gaza Strip.Three missiles hit Dar al-Arqam school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, the civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said, killing several children and wounding 100 people. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict | Editorial

Impunity over Palestinian deaths in Gaza will lead to further cases like this massacre of rescue and healthcare workersAfter 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian health authorities. More are starving because Israel has cut off aid. The offensive is intensifying again – with 100 children killed or maimed each day since Israel resumed heavy strikes last month, the UN reports.Even so, Israel’s killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers is particularly chilling. Though they died on 23 March, it took days for Israel to grant access to the site, the UN said. Another man was last seen in Israeli custody. Two grounds for seeing this not only as tragic but as a war crime stand out. The first is that the UN says the men were shot “one by one”, and a forensic expert said that preliminary evidence “suggests they were executed, not from a distant range”, given the “specific an...

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