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Holiday clubs found to benefit children and families

News

Monday, July 30, 2018

| Nursery World

New research reveals holiday clubs have a wider impact on child health and well-being than previously believed.

Holiday hunger projects under way in pilot areas

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Friday, July 27, 2018

| Nursery World

Children from disadvantaged families will be able to access out-of-school activities and healthy meals for free this summer in a £2m pilot scheme funded by the Department for Education.

Severe obesity at its highest-ever rate in Year 6 children

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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

| Nursery World

Levels of severe obesity in children aged 10 to 11 years have reached the highest point since records began.

Campaigners win ruling on junk food ads

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Friday, July 6, 2018

| Nursery World

Health campaigners have called for tougher restrictions on online adverts for unhealthy food aimed at children, after their complaints against confectionery brands were upheld.

From our archives: on the letters page

Features

Friday, June 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Correspondence from early editions of Nursery World shines a light on the evolution of attitudes about childcare in society.

Researchers to study effect of indoor air pollution on children

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Thursday, June 21, 2018

| Nursery World

The adverse effects of indoor air pollution on children in the UK are to be investigated for the first time.

Call for junk food ads to be banned from on-demand services

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Health campaigners want junk food advertising restricted on TV, as well as on-demand services, to protect young children from obesity.

22,000 children severely obese at the end of primary school

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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children in the last year of primary school severely obese is almost double that of those in Reception, according to a new analysis by the Local Government Association.

Exposure to germs could prevent childhood leukaemia

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Exposing children to common harmless bugs, for example at nursery, could help prevent the most common type of childhood cancer.

Eating fish in pregnancy not linked to autism in children

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Scientists have looked at the assumption that eating fish in pregnancy is a major cause of autism in children and found no evidence for the claims.

Nursery well-being programme aims to prevent mental health problems

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

| Nursery World

A well-being programme developed specially for pre-school children is expanding into nurseries across the country.

Government mental health plans ‘failing a generation’ of children

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has come under fire from both the education and health select committees of MPs, who say that its flawed plans risk leaving hundreds of thousands of children without the care they need.

Early years group calls for smacking ban

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

| Nursery World

Early years training organisation NEyTCO has launched a social media awareness campaign in support of banning smacking.

Call for young children's dental care to be prioritised

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

| Nursery World

Parents struggle to access free oral health care and are unaware of dental checks for one-year-olds, according to a new survey.

DfE to pilot £2m scheme to fight 'holiday hunger'

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched a £2m pilot to look at ways to support disadvantaged children during the school holidays by providing meals and activities.

Child health and wellbeing in UK falling behind other OECD nations

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Thursday, March 15, 2018

| Nursery World

British child health is lagging behind other countries, according to a new analysis.

Labour secures vote on Government free school meal and childcare changes

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Friday, March 9, 2018

| Nursery World

Labour is seeking to overthrow Government plans for changes to the eligibility criteria for childcare for two-year-olds and free school meals in a vote in Parliament.

A Unique Child: Nutrition - On the cards

Features

Monday, March 5, 2018

| Nursery World

The head of Scotland’s Active Healthy Kids Report Card discusses obesity with Meredith Jones Russell

The Big Picture - Royal high-five

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Sunday, February 4, 2018

| Nursery World

The Duchess of Cambridge visited Great Ormond Street Hospital to officially open the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre, home to the new Premier Inn Clinical Building.