Former Scottish health minister Susan Deacon has been appointed to lead a wide-ranging review on how to improve children's early years in order to reduce the need for more costly crisis interventions...
Simon Vevers offers information for people who want to use their early years qualifications and skills to develop their careers further in other areas Health visitor's assistant
Health campaigners have condemned Europe's food safety watchdog for refusing to ban food additives that have been shown to cause hyperactivity in children.
Cross party MPs have called on the Government to ‘unlock the trauma trap’ of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and free children with a population-wide public health strategy.
The number of families experiencing mental health difficulties has risen during the pandemic, with one particular gap, the support for new fathers. Michela Biseo of the Anna Freud Centre shares some...
The health service has found a way to keep valued parent employees on their shifts. <STRONG> Annette Rawstrone </STRONG> reports
The UK should adopt the World Health Organisation (WHO) system of measuring child growth on breast-fed babies rather than faster-growing formula-fed babies, according to a new report.
A new online information service to help health visitors identify children with speech, language and communication difficulties has been launched by I CAN. Starting Point at...
SunSmart, the skin cancer prevention campaign run by Cancer Research UK and funded by the UK health departments, has produced a series of guidelines for nurseries and pre-schools to develop a sun...
A new vaccine against pneumococcal meningitis will be offered to every child under two in the UK from the autumn, the Department of Health has announced. From 4 September every child starting their...