Society
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Children, Children’s health, Facebook, Health, Instagram, Media, Mental health, Meta, Social networking, Society, TechnologyReel-ing it in: Meta is paying influencers to promote teen accounts
In July 2025, Meta gathered parenting influencers from all over Australia at…
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alcohol, alcoholism, Autobiography and memoir, Biography books, Books, Child protection, Children, Health, Mental health, mind and body books, Rape and sexual assault, Social care, SocietyI was abused as a child – and thought I had healed. Then I began drinking in lockdown
Not so long ago, Frank Spinelli seemed to have sorted out his…
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Children, Education, England, Kent, Mental health, Parents and parenting, School attendance and absence, Schools, Social exclusion, Society, Teaching, UK news, Young people‘Cheap travel is not a defence’: the parents facing court for school absences in England
As the long school summer break approached its mid-point recently, Margate beach…
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Andy Burnham, Carers, Children’s health, Disability, family, Labour, Mental health, Parents and parenting, Politics, Social care, Society, UK newsThe care system fails to care for parents | Letters
Matilda Davis’s story should force us to confront an uncomfortable truth and…
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A moment that changed me: My stammer made life a misery – then a song gave me back my voice
For most of my life, I had one goal: don’t get found…
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Cambridgeshire, Digital media, Gardens, Health, Life and style, loneliness, Mental health, Social care, Social media, Society, UK news, Volunteering‘I’m giving people a happy space’: the man clearing gardens for free – and letting light into strangers’ lives
Anita Thursby had been dreading the gas engineer coming to service her…
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Carers, Children’s health, Disability, Mental health, Parents and parenting, Social care, Society, UK newsMatilda in pieces: what one mother’s suicide reveals about the carers broken by the system
Parent-carers of disabled children are exposed to chronic levels of extreme stress…
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Mental health: one step forward and two steps back? | Letters
It’s very encouraging to hear the announcement about the new network of…
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‘I’ve sat at the very precipice of life’: Clarke Carlisle on gambling, depression – and survival
‘How are you?” I ask Clarke Carlisle. Usually when you meet people…
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Millions in England face longer waits for mental health care as NHS providers plan cuts
Millions of adults and children in England face being forced to wait…
