A children's centre has opened in Workington, Cumbria, at Victoria Infants and Nursery School. The centre has an after-school club and offers family training sessions, a medical room for health...
(Photograph) - Children at Aboyne primary in Aberdeenshire celebrated the end of their recent health week with a boccia tournament. Boccia, a game similar to bowls, can be played on virtually any...
A newly-designated children's centre in Bradford celebrated its official opening last week. Around 900,000 has been spent extending and refurbishing Owlet Children and Family Centre, which offers...
Teenage mothers are the target of a campaign by the Barnardo's Young Parents' Network in Northern Ireland. The network participates in the School Age Mothers regional steering group, which supports...
Every playworker hates to hear this dreaded phrase. Alex Marker looks at some of the reasons behind its utterance, and some stratagems to get around it one of the pleasures of teaching at a youth...
The number of adoptions in England and Wales last year rose by 10 per cent, according to a report published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Take-up of the MMR vaccination in children aged under two has dropped by 3 per cent over the past three months, the Scottish Executive revealed last week. Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr Mac...
Pre-school and out-of-school services in Wales are to benefit from an extra 1.5m in Government funding. Welsh health and social services minister Jane Hutt revealed that 500,000 will go to playgroups...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited a Sure Start centre in Ballymena where they met people who have completed an intensive parenting programme.
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.