Toddlers should be physically active for three hours a day, recommends new guidance published today by the Department of Health.
A charity has warned that tackling children's taste for sugar and junk food will be a ‘public health test like no other’.
Essex County Council has awarded a seven-year contract to Virgin Care, in partnership with Barnardo’s, to run children’s centres and child health services.
The London Early Years Foundation is tackling obesity by creating a model of excellence - encompassing not only child health, but the attitudes of staff and parents. June O'Sullivan explains
We’re going to the beach this July, with cover feature on beach schools, plus babies mental health, a new sustainability framework, and the concept of curriculum in the early years (ahead of our...
Free milk could be introduced by Highland Council in all its nursery and primary schools as part of a programme of improved health and nutrition. Director of education, culture and sport Bruce...
According to new research from a group of charities, many routine health visitor checks continue to be over the phone, drop-in clinics are no longer operating in some areas and baby and toddler groups...
Natalie Kane has won BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind Award (individual category) 2021 for the mental health support she gives to the nursery staff, after she was nominated by Gillian Muir. This year...
Three of the five teachers at Wee Ones nursery school in Wandsworth, London, suspected of having tuberculosis (News, 17 May) were given the all-clear at the end of last week. Merton, Wandsworth and...