Efforts to improve young children's health and safeguard their well-being are being strengthened by closer multi-agency working, in a community project detailed by Alison Tonkin, Cath Alderson and...
Health visiting as a specialist career could be lost under Government plans for nursing, says the health visitors' union.
The deputy health minister has urged everyone in Scotland to take action now against the 'health time bomb' of childhood obesity. Speaking at the 'Childhood obesity conference - changing Scotland's...
Oral care is key from the outset, says Dr Sandra White, Public Health England director of dental public health
Charities and training providers can help early years practitioners give child health and safety the best attention.
In a new series of columns penned by senior health visitors, Rachel Costis, operational manager for public health nursing at Swindon Borough Council, sets out key safeguarding lessons from two recent...
The DfESand the Department of Health are inviting joint bids from local authorities and primary care trusts to become demonstration sites for the health-led home visiting parent support programme,...
Deputy health minister Rhona Brankin has hailed Edinburgh's Pip Project a 'great success'. The scheme supplies free fruit to more than 2,000 children in 45 nursery schools across the city.
A bit of responsibility can teach children about health, say Alison Tonkin, Cath Alderson and Gill Roberts.
A coalition of health professionals, academics, nutritionists and campaigners are calling for a tax on sugar to protect the health of children in the UK.