Daily roundup 8 June: Children's laureate, drugs, and teeth extraction

Lauren Child, the author-illustrator of the popular Charlie and Lola books, has been named the new children's laureate, succeeding fellow author and illustrator Chris Riddell to the two-year post. The Guardian reports that in the lead-up to the announcement of her appointment, Child took the opportunity to criticise the pressure on parents to oversee all of their children's time.


All music festivals should provide drug testing facilities, where people can go and find out if substances are safe, the Royal Society for Public Health has said. The BBC reports that the organisation said that this will reduce the risk of serious harm from recreational drug use, after a sharp increase in drug deaths in England and Wales.


Toddlers are increasingly having their teeth extracted because too many parents think they are too young for the dentist, leading surgeons have warned. The Telegraph reports that figures show that 80 per cent of one- and two-year-olds in England did not visit the dentist in the last year, despite the fact NHS dental care for children is free.


A new head teacher is being sought for a single pupil school on a Scottish island described as being on the edge of the world. The BBC reports that Jayne Smith is leaving Foula Primary, in Shetland, after three-and-a-half years in the post. The job is being advertised with a salary of £49,133 and rented three-bedroom accommodation is available.


Three prominent Benedictine boarding schools - Ampleforth, Downside and Worth - should be examined as a combined case study for the UK child sex abuse investigation into the Catholic church, a preliminary hearing has been told. The Guardian reports that a lawyer in charge of the Catholic church strand of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse said the work of the archdiocese of Birmingham and its schools should also feature as a complementary case study.