Parenting and improving parents' lives should be given as much focus as children's health and development, according to new guidance for children's centres.
Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition urging the health secretary to introduce routine screening for Group B Strep in pregnancy.
New guidance on how to safely introduce children to solid food has been launched by the Government’s Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID).
The Health and Social Care Committee wants the Government to produce a long-term strategy for the first 1,000 days of life to improve support and services for children and families.
The charity 4Children is calling for midwives and health visitors be based at children’s centres, after a poll revealed that a quarter of mothers-to-be found out information about pregnancy from a...
Childcare practitioners can help fight obesity by promoting health advice to parents on how much exercise children should do, new guidance states.
Maximum limits would be imposed on the levels of fat, salt and sugar in food marketed to children, if Labour wins the election, as part of a new approach to public health.
The agency Little Stars Ltd is keen to let us know about its new temporary placement service for short-term childcare with families or day nurseries. The agency, based in Burton-on-Trent, places...
(Photograph) - Mollie Wilson, aged seven, makes a paper butterfly during an art activity at the official opening of Tyersal Children's Centre in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The new centre, funded by...