Plans to increase the number of family hubs in operation and to open a national centre championing their work, were announced by education secretary Gavin Williamson this afternoon (19 May).
(Photograph) - Sure Start minister Catherine Ashton met Btissam Zemoura and her children, Hana, two, and Sami, one, as they tried out one of the toys on loan from the mobile toy library at...
The Government stuck to its guns on physical punishment last week, when he Prime Minister's official spokesman rejected calls by the health select committee to use the forthcoming Green Paper on...
The Government's policy of targeting investment on disadvantaged areas and families while relying on the private childcare market to cater for working parents has hindered moves to integrate childcare...
* Only a small minority of children whose parents have separated think they were given a full explanation for the breakdown in the relationship, according to research for the Joseph Rowntree...
David Cameron's recent turn to domestic policy with his 'Can Parent' classes is to be welcomed. Repositioning parenting classes as support for all, rather than a penalty for 'poor parents' is a good...
Disabled children are illegally sent home from school because there are not enough staff to cope with them, according to new research from Contact a Family.
Plans to implement a total ban on online junk food advertising have been unveiled by the Government in an attempt to tackle the growing obesity crisis, particularly among children.
Increasing paid paternity leave to six weeks could reduce the gender pay gap and help equalise men and women’s participation in the labour market, suggests new research.