Health campaigners are calling for the importance of a good night's sleep to be taught in schools as part of the national curriculum.
A report by the Infant and Toddler Forum (ITF) has highlighted a need for more advice for women planning to have children to improve the health of the next generation.
Monika Jephcott (left), chief executive of Play Therapy UK (PTUK), has spent six years lobbying the Government to ensure children are at the forefront of the reform of the 1983 Mental Health Act,...
Children in maintained nurseries are to be offered fruit as well as milk under changes to the Welfare Food Scheme intended to promote healthy eating and combat obesity in England. The reforms,...
Most early years professionals understand that children’s earliest experiences are vital to their development, but more than 80 percent believe the Government is not doing enough to provide support to...
The lives of more than 10,000 babies born in Bradford over the next three years will be tracked by medical researchers in one of the world's biggest longitudinal studies of child health. The Born in...
A total of 200,000 expectant parents in Scotland have received a Baby Box, under the devolved government’s scheme aimed at tackling inequality and promoting health.
<P> Childcare providers need to work more closely with professionals from other fields such as health and social work to make sure that young children and their families receive the services they...
In a new experiment Channel 4 is bringing together a group of elderly care home residents and pre-school children over several weeks to assess the impact on their health, wellbeing and even life...
When it comes to the question of whether we can afford to invest in early childhood health and wellbeing, surely we should be asking whether we can afford not to? In the light of the latest children’s...