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Chris Baraniuk
Technology reporter
Bullies are far more likely to target their victims face-to-face than online, a large survey finds.
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The council leader says the top of the organisation was not listening to issues from the frontline.
Read moreShould you give your child unlimited pocket money?
Could pocket money be considered a form of child abuse? That's what financial literacy expert Lewis Mandell has concluded. He tells Ed Butler about his research into what happens when parents give their children an unconditional allowance. (Picture: A child counting money Credit: iStock, Getty Images)
Vincent Kearney
BBC News NI Home Affairs Correspondent
Nine out of 10 children who serve a custodial sentence re-offend within a year of being released.
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Reading council has been too slow to make improvements a year after being rated inadequate.
Read moreMinisters 'in the dark' over scale of child vulnerability
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Ministers do not know how many hundreds of thousands of children in England are living risky or vulnerable lives, says children's commissioner Anne Longfield.
England's children's champion has tried to calculate the total in a report, in the absence of overall official data.
She found some 670,000 children live in high risk family situations, thousands with parents in addiction treatment.
Children's minister Robert Goodwill said support for vulnerable children was being given across government. But he acknowledged there was more to do.
Vulnerable children and young people were physically, emotionally or sexually abused across seven decades.
Read morePause For Thought: 'Grown-ups never understand anything, and it is tiresome for children to always explain things to them.'
Jenk Oz, the 12-year-old CEO of children's lifestyle website iCoolKids, has a tip for other child entrepreneurs.