A debate on whether health visitors should be based in children's centres or at doctors' surgeries has broken out, after GPs claimed that there is a communication breakdown with those based at...
An innovative exercise programme is stretching children's muscles and their awareness of how to look after their bodies, as Sophie Stancel reports More than 20 per cent of children in the UK are...
The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) has published a new report which capture the challenges that health visitors faced while working with families during lockdown - and how they overcame them.
Plans to support children’s mental health in schools do not go far enough, child experts say.
It has been four years since the Covid-19 pandemic began to change the world. In the first of this series on its legacy, Jo Parkes looks at its impact on children’s health
(Photograph) - Children at Letham Nursery in Perth brush up for the two-year 'Oral Health Demonstration Project' launched by the Scottish Executive, which has set a target for 60 per cent of...
In the first part of a new series looking at staff health and well-being, Charlotte Goddard sets out how healthy we are as a society, and sector, and how inequality affects this
More clarity is needed in how babies will get the best start in life as Public Health England is replaced by the National Institute for Health Protection, the Parent-Infant Foundation warns.
Loss of contact with friends contributed to a decline in children’s mental health and well-being during the previous lockdown – and researchers at the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) warn that...
A new resource aimed at helping early years workers improve the mental health and development of the babies and children in their care has been developed by mental health experts at the Anna Freud...