(Photograph) - The Village Kindergarten in Brant Broughton, near Lincoln, held a joint celebration last month when it marked its first birthday with a teddy bears' picnic to raise funds for the...
Schools in England will no longer be able to sell children junk food under draft standards issued by the Schools Food Trust. The Government-appointed body wants to tackle childhood obesity by removing...
A baby's birth weight appears to have a greater influence on future mental ability and educational performance than their upbringing, say researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC), based in...
(Photograph) - Labour MP David Hinchliffe last week introduced a Bill to amend the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and outlaw the defence of 'reasonable chastisement' for smacking children. Mr...
Honor Oak Sure Start in the London borough of Lewisham celebrated its second birthday last week with a visit from 'EastEnders' star Sylvester Williams, known to viewers as Mick who ran the 'night...
The delivery of parenting programmes in local communities will be debated at a Sure Start conference in Edinburgh on 7 September. Delegates to the conference can learn about the various parenting...
Projects that support children and adults who have been diagnosed with cancer and other life-threatening or limiting conditions in Northern Ireland have received a 3.6m lottery cash grant. Announcing...
The Northern Ireland Executive has spent 6.3m to fund 23 Sure Start programmes which support more than 17,000 children aged from nought to three, deputy first minister Mark Durkan said last week. More...
Physical fitness differences in children with and without motor learning difficulties In this Australian study, 52 children with motor learning difficulties (MLD), aged five to eight years, were...
Australian research examining exposure to classroom noise of 25 full-time teaching staff in 14 pre-school settings. One teacher exceeded the maximum permissible level of daily noise exposure for...