Lauren Crosby Medlicott
The Independent
United Kingdom
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‘I thought about breaking my own arm’: Why teachers want to see changes to the Ofsted system
While they may not seem like much to those outside the profession, Ofsted inspections can be a source of enormous stress for teachers and other school staff. Lauren Crosby Medlicott gets the inside story → Read More
There’s something about Wales
With Wrexham and their Hollywood owners causing a stir, the country is having a moment. There are countless Welsh people proudly touting their Welshness as they practice their craft in their home communities and around the world, writes Lauren Crosby Medlicott → Read More
Mothers forced to choose which of their starving children will eat as famine looms in East Africa
The photographer best known for his portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's children has turned his lens on the devastating events in Africa, where mothers are watching their children slowly starve → Read More
Where have all the foster carers gone?
While there has been a huge increase in the number of young people needing care, the number of potential foster parents has decreased, says Lauren Crosby Medlicott. Why is this and what can be done? → Read More
The 10 most prestigious preschools in London and how to get in, according 2 early-education consultants
Nurseries for London's elite offer yoga, ballet, and French and can cost up to $6,800 a term. Some advise parents to register interest at birth. → Read More
'Blood mixed with gunpowder': the photojournalist documenting Gaza under assault
'I have captured bombs falling on neighbourhoods and homes, destruction, children lying in the bombing sites... and many other shots that are difficult for any normal person to bear in this life' → Read More
The Afghan families still waiting to find a home in the UK
A year after the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, Lauren Crosby Medlicott speaks to some of the refugees who have made it to Britain → Read More
I quit Google to start a crypto company. The market just crashed, but I don't regret my decision to leave tech for Web3 — here's why.
Shiv Sakhuja, 25, left his engineering job at Google in April to start a crypto business. He's nervous about the market but has no regrets. → Read More
The women struggling with maternity discrimination in the workplace
77% of working mums experience discrimination in the workplace and 54,000 women a year lose jobs for getting pregnant. → Read More
'If my menopause symptoms had been recognised I could have been saved the shame of being incompetent at work'
Two women tell Lauren Crosby Medlicott how unrecognised effects of menopause forced them out of the workplace → Read More
In a remote village school, rising floodwaters are no barrier to 500 children wanting an education
Inside the school on a Zambezi flood plain where parents persist because without an education, the children of the area don't have much hope against the rising floodwaters → Read More
Sign of the times: Can online petitions really change the world?
Since the pandemic began, more than 110 million people worldwide have signed online petitions in support of a diverse range of causes. → Read More
In Afghanistan, women's rights activists face reality of Taliban's broken promises
While women are still attempting to call for equal rights on the streets, most are now just trying to stay alive → Read More
What women want: Why we need to end workplace taboos on reproductive health
Lauren Crosby Medlicott speaks to women going through pregnancy, infertility and menopause about how their companies failed them, and how we can make it better → Read More
I took an unpaid sabbatical to launch my own business. $3.3 million in funding later, I know it was the best career move I've ever made.
Olga Beck-Friis was working as a junior project manager at McKinsey in Sweden when she took time off to launch her successful legal-tech startup. → Read More
Coffin maker reveals that size of caskets in UK are getting bigger
Around a fifth of his coffins now being made as ‘extra large’. → Read More
In Focus: Are over-50s drinkers living in denial?
While many young people are choosing the sober life, the drinking habits of people aged 55+ has been on an upward trajectory since 2012. → Read More
Cancer, coronavirus and what happens next... How one pandemic impacted another
There were early 50,000 fewer cancer diagnoses made in the UK during the pandemic and over 30,000 patients had treatments delayed → Read More
‘I felt lightheaded after a run and thought I was just dehydrated – but I had a brain tumour’
Amy Sellers had just arived home from a couch to 5k training run in August 2018 when she started to feel unusually warm and lightheaded. → Read More
Red Hand day: Former child soldiers reveal how they saw 'everyone as an enemy'
Former child soldiers have revealed how they were taught to kill and never spoke of what they went through to mark Red Hand Day → Read More