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The Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands, has been named England's best day out

"Every one of these cases is preventable," said one UNICEF official. "The food, water, and nutrition treatments they desperately need are being blocked from reaching them."

Raising the Nation Play Commission report recommends ban on ‘no ball games’ signs and raising digital age of consent to 16

Pen Green, a model for Labour’s Sure Start, could face closure if Reform-led North Northamptonshire council fails to act A world-renowned children’s centre that provided the model for Sure Start is on the brink of collapse, with its future in the hands of the newly elected Reform UK leadership of its local council. The Pen Green Centre, which pioneered wrap-around care and learning for preschool children in one of the most deprived areas of the UK, was the blueprint for Labour’s totemic early years Sure Start programme in the late 1990s. Continue reading...

New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report Sure Start children’s centres provided £2 of savings for every £1 in costs, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), prompting calls for the government to look at such services as potentially paying for themselves. The centres, championed by the last Labour government, created £2.8bn in savings and revenues at the scheme’s peak in England, according to the IFS study. Continue reading...

This trial for systematic reviews or meta-analyses was registered at PROSPERO as CRD42024525197 (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=525197).

Many parents think that drinking at home is a safe way to teach teenagers about alcohol, but research suggests this is not true.

It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about t...

Parents are being "misled" by marketing from leading baby food companies, experts tell BBC.

What will the role look like? As a Senior Worker in our Focussed Intervention team, you will be at the forefront of the Forward Leeds drug and alcohol service. Your role will be to line manage a nu...

The health secretary fears lifelong damage for hundreds of children who were wrongly diagnosed as deaf or denied the help they needed

Financial literacy lessons to be given to pupils at primary and secondary schools