A top health expert has proposed that all children should be required to have the MMR vaccine before they start nursery and school.
The Government will achieve its 2010 targets of halving child poverty, economic secretary Ed Balls said last week, despite figures showing an increase in the number of families living below the...
Informal childcare provided by grandparents is up by a third and now worth 7.3 billion a year, up from 3.9 billion in 2004, according to new research.
A film is being launched by an animator and his wife in memory of their stillborn son to help other parents experiencing the same tragedy.
Infant school children are communicating, negotiating, planning and performing in sophisticated ways with their own junkyard orchestra, as Michael Jones reports.
More than 80 per cent of adults want the next Government to have policies that ensure children can play outside, according to a poll commissioned by Play England to launch its Manifesto for Children's...
by Y Penny Lancaster and Perpetua Kirby, Thomas Coram Foundation (Open University Press, 174.99, ISBN: 9780335241279)
Children feel excluded from decisions that affect them, according to research by the National Participation Forum.