Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents’ generation, a survey suggests.

More than 100 children a week are turning to the ChildLine helpline with worries about their parents’ drinking or drug use, the NSPCC says.

As more young adults move back in with their parents after graduating, Tim Muffett met one 24-year-old “boomerang child” and her parents to find out how it affected them.

Tears, anxiety, a sense of lost time… and that’s just the parents

Oliver and Gillian Schönrock, the parents criticised for allowing their children to cycle to school, have warned that a culture of fear risks damaging youngsters’ social development.