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Teaching children empathy can have a positive impact on their behaviour, emotional awareness, and tolerance and understanding of other cultures, a study has found (Webb et al, 2024).
‘GPs and health practitioners have issued an urgent warning to parents to vaccinate their children, after a huge spike in the number of cases of whooping cough in the UK in recent months.’ .
The ‘Supporting a Child with ADHD’ SilverCloud programme has been designed for parents and carers of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It is a neuro-affirming programme...
‘[The report] said that there were huge variations in the quality and quantity of training given to teachers, and that parents could never be sure how safe their children were. Appropriate...
The Act covers many avenues of child protection, but it is not expected to directly change safeguarding responsibilities for teachers – although those teaching relationships and sex education (RSE)...
‘Of those whose reasons for referral were known, the most common issues were anxiety, ‘reaching crisis’, neurodevelopmental conditions (excluding autism), depression, and self-harm. However,...
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‘The UK Health Security Agency declared a national incident in January after a sharp rise in the number of measles cases, coinciding with the lowest uptake of vaccines recorded in more than a decade...
‘The data now shows that infants and children living in deprived areas are more than twice as likely to die than those in less deprived areas.’ .
Sara is 15 and pregnant. The father of her child left to go back to his home country early in the pregnancy. Sara is now 28 weeks pregnant and still at school. She is struggling because of her...
‘Boarding away from home, brings its own challenges and many pupils in independent schools are bursary, charity or local authority funded and often have had upbringings in areas of high...
…13.6% of reception-aged children in areas of social deprivation were obese, compared with 6.2% in the least deprived areas. When it came to ‘severe obesity’ the figures were 4.5% and 1.3%...
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