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Extended schools are in danger of becoming 'warehouses that look after children', Tim Gill, a leading figure in the play sector warned last week. Speaking after the launch of the extended schools...
Islington has become the first local authority in England to adopt a policy to ensure that children experience and learn about risk through play.
Lynn Brydon is business and finance support officer at Sure Start Strategic Partnership Tyne & Wear (www.northtyneside.gov.uk)
Local authorities should be given greater Government funding to pay for quality childcare, according to an inner London council. A survey by the London borough of Camden concluded that the majority of...
Nursery staff will have a legal duty to spot potential terrorists, under a new bill before Parliament.
Leukaemia. What is it? Leukaemia is the most common cancer of childhood, with about 400 new cases each year in the UK. It is a cancer of the tissues that produce blood cells. The body produces...
Parents who consistently fail to help their obese children lose weight could be accused of neglect, a group of health experts have said.
By Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Centre Claims that childhood obesity is at epidemic levels and rising exponentially are no more than unsupported speculation, according to...
'Please use your liberty to promote ours', wrote the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi over a decade ago, urging people to take a stand against companies doing business with Burma's military...
Healthy living is being promoted in a New Year advertising campaign by the Government.