Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief ... blocks the throat so effectively that a child will gasp to death. Children were familiar with disease risks. While typhus runs rampant in ...

Picture: Rob Leeson But the Australia Medical Association’s Victorian branch has warned the state’s health system still lacks “consistent oversight and reporting” of avoidable child death and harm. It ...

Following their daughter’s death, Francis and Berthe set up the Victoria Climbié Foundation in 2003 to campaign for improvements in child protection policies and practices and to ensure ...

A blue plaque to commemorate a Victorian child chimney sweep has been unveiled at the place of his death. George Brewster, 11, became trapped in the chimney of a former pauper asylum at Victoria ...