The Victorian period was a period of great ... The 1833 Factory Act made education a right for all children. But poor families often needed their children to work and earn money for the family ...

When our founder Thomas Barnardo first started supporting children in Victorian East London, many of the children he helped were experiencing poor health due to malnutrition. Illnesses like rickets ...

A Victorian coroner has called for the creation of a child protection taskforce in the wake of a damning report into four family violence deaths across the state between 2016 and 2017. The deaths ...

Doctors are calling for a ban on the "Victorian-era punishment" of smacking children over concerns that ... of three are more ...