Training in compassion could improve the mental health of teachers and boost staff retention, according to a new study.
Health campaigners are warning that lockdown has led to more secondhand smoke exposure in families with children.
The Government is committing a further 200m to its Troubled Families programme to help 400,000 more families with multiple and complex social, health and economic problems
A Kent nursery is being investigated by Ofsted and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) as the possible source of a local salmonella outbreak that has affected 149 children. Cannock House Day Nursery in...
Nurseries have a part to play in offsetting the shortage of family oral health services created by recent Government changes to dentists' contracts. Karen Faux reports
It has been three years since the Covid-19 pandemic began to change the world. In the first of this series on its legacy,Jo Parkeslooks at its impact on children’s health
The Scottish Executive has set up a new expert group to look at parents' concerns about the MMR vaccine and to examine the evidence on the apparent rise in autism in children. Take-up of the MMR...
A whole-town approach is being taken by the Government in its latest health drive, and children's centres are key players, writes Karen Faux.
A new observation tool that detects signs of social withdrawal and distress in babies has been trialled by UK health visitors with ‘overwhelmingly positive results’.
In Nursery World Scotland last week (May 23) we reported incorrectly that a survey prepared for the Scottish Parliament's cross-party group on visual impairment had found that 80 per cent of nursery...