In recent years peanut and other food allergies have received great attention in the media, reflecting a concern that severe or fatal reactions to food are on the increase. However, the first...
Make it easy for children to help themselves to healthy snacks and drinks with advice from Jenni Clarke The increase in diet-related illnesses and obesity has made children's health and diet a...
Teen-age pregnancy does not significantly affect a woman's educational attainment and employment in the long term, although she is more likely to live in poverty with an unemployed partner, a new...
The four main children's charities in Ireland have called for the Stormont and Dublin governments to adopt a greater cross-border approach to child protection. Barnardo's Northern Ireland, the Irish...
Children's emotional intelligence is the focus of a booklet published by the Child Guidance Service of Knowsley Borough Council in Merseyside. Helping my child to develop emotional intelligence was...
Two leading charities campaigning for improved work-life balance, Parents At Work and New Ways to Work, have merged to form a new pressure group, Working Families. At its launch in London last...
Free milk at lunchtime is to be extended to all primary school pupils in Glasgow in an initiative funded by the Scottish Executive's Hungry for Success programme. Glasgow City Council already offers...
Early identification: are speech/ language-impaired toddlers at increased risk for Developmental Co-ordination Disorder? Forty Canadian children with speech/ language and motor assessments were...
'Changes in guidance to the national standards for under-eights daycare and childminding in England (Standard 7: Health - First Aid) for full-day care, sessional care and out-of-school care indicate...
You can let the children join in many of your inexpensive ways of keeping fit, as Jan Hurst shows If you've been following the advice given in last month's fitness feature you should at least feel you...