Children who watch television for more than two hours a day are more likely to be obese, to smoke and have high cholesterol in early adulthood, according to a report in the Lancet. Co-author Dr Hancox...
The needs of children who have disabilities and those living away from home are not given significant priority by agencies, according to the second joint chief inspectors' review of children's...
The Daycare Trust has renewed its call for every community to have a children's centre, urging parents and organisations to sign its charter calling for 'a publicly-funded universal expansion of...
People in Britain have mixed feelings about disabled children attending mainstream schools, a survey by the Disability Rights Commission has found. Although nearly two-thirds of the people surveyed...
A colourful and appealing child growth chart produced by Friends of the Earth and the National Childbirth Trust doubles as a campaigning pack about the chemicals in common household products that...
The next Professional Nanny conference takes place on Saturday 1 October and this year's event will have a workshop-led approach, with advice for nannies on employment issues, working abroad, first...
(Photograph) - Seven-year-old Eliza Harris of Trinity Primary School in Badminton, Gloucestershire, met Mark Speight of BBC TV's 'SMart' when she won the four-to seven-year-olds category in a poster...
Students on a new foundation degree course for early years and health professionals will soon be able to study at their local Sure Start centre. De Montfort University in Leicester is offering a...
The Labour MP who instigated a key piece of child protection legislation said last week that the Government is not doing enough to stop organisations from ignoring the results of their own vetting and...
Child health campaigners are calling on the Government to ban junk food advertising targeted at children in order to curb the rise in childhood obesity and illnesses and behavioural disorders linked...