Sarah Dickinson, SEND to Learn, Blyth
Around 400,000 children are being pushed into poverty because of their parents’ smoking habit, according to a new study.
Scotland has set out an ambitious plan for improving young children's life chances, but without any new funding behind it. Ruth Thomson sizes up the bigger policy picture.
The children's commissioner for England has warned that proposals to introduce a cap on household benefit and changes to housing benefit are likely to have a negative impact on children and could...
The breakdown of a family has no significant long-term impact on most children's well-being and development, according to new research published by the DCSF.
The Children’s Commissioner wants the two Conservative leadership candidates to put the billions they have promised for income and corporation tax cuts towards mending broken childhoods.
In a new experiment Channel 4 is bringing together a group of elderly care home residents and pre-school children over several weeks to assess the impact on their health, wellbeing and even life...
While the families of children in your care plan their holidays, says Emma Haughton, you can make them aware of possible hazards and help them to travel safely Couples with young children tend to have...
The importance of early education for vulnerable children has been recognised in new draft guidance developed by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Action research projects in the outdoors can boost staff’s knowledge and enthusiasm for outside activities. Gabriella Jozwiak on being an advocate for learning outdoors