The Department of Health has launched a second public education campaign, at a cost of 700,000, to highlight the dangers of using antibiotics unnecessarily.
British cities are 'scarred' by child poverty, said the Joseph Rowntree Foundation following its research showing that poverty affects around half the children in some of Britain's biggest cities. The...
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Drinking milk regularly can help combat obesity and Vitamin D deficiency, says Dr Hilary Jones GP, Breakfast TV health editor
Well-intended government policies do not always lead to a beneficial outcome for early years settings and their families.
Free healthy school lunches are to be on offer to primary school children in Durham, Newham and Wolverhampton, Children's Secretary Ed Balls announced last week.
Busy Bees, the largest daycare provider in the UK, is to shut one of its nurseries in Crawley, West Sussex, next month.
Children and Families Minister Robert Goodwill said he is ‘living in a parallel universe’ when it comes to the 30 hours at a Parliamentary debate today.
Children from socially deprived backgrounds are 15 times more likely to be killed in a house fire than children from affluent families, according to a report published last week by the Accidental...