The NHS should work with Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships to support more childcare for staff, delegates heard at the first NHS childcare conference. Last week's conference in...
A shortage of nutritional and dietary information for those working with one- to three-year-olds has been highlighted in a survey of healthcare and early years professionals. Research agency TNS...
Research evidence showing children as young as three and four are inactive much of their waking lives has fuelled concerns that their 'couch potato' lifestyle may damage their long-term health.
Nicole Weinstein talks to two experts – I CAN’s Kate Freeman and local authority health advisor Joe Corcoran – to find out why moving straight to an open cup from a bottle is the healthiest, but not...
Advice on coping with the stresses and strains of parenthood was launched last week by the National Family and Parenting Institute (NFPI). A booklet and video entitled 'From Breakfast to Bedtime',...
I was startled by the Government's announcement that childminders would be allowed to smoke while supervising their charges (News, 14 December and 21/28 December). Surely there is a mountain of...
Too much salt can be bad for children's health, but how do you create an exciting menu without it? Snapdragons' Mary Llewellin explains
A leading deaf children's charity has welcomed the Government's decision to implement a screening programme for detecting hearing loss in babies soon after they are born. Public health minister Yvette...
Scotland has been chosen as one of only two countries in the world to test a new World Health Organisation strategy which will promote breastfeeding as one of a range of steps to improve children's...
1 March Essential food hygiene This day course by CJ Associates, certified by the Royal Society of Health, provides an overview of food hygiene. Topics include what are bacteria, preventing food...