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  • Report : Debatable: the magazine from the UK Youth Parliament
  • News : Chief Nursing Officer Bulletin
  • News : Sex and drugs education to be compulsory
  • News : Working Time Directive Bulletin
  • News : NICE to confer on taking greater account of patients’ views
  • News : Agency workers to get same rights as permanent staff
  • News : Speech and language therapists are stressed and demoralised, says union
  • News : Maternity services growth fails to keep up with births
  • News : Antisocial funds announced for 20 areas
  • News : Hayward Adventure disabled children's playground, Islington
  • News : GMC welcomes appointment of Council Members
  • News : Reducing avoidable harm in paediatrics
  • News : Parents warned about baby virus
  • News : Light drinking 'no risk to baby'
  • News : Maternity services under mounting stress say midwifery managers
  • News : Smokers are banned from fostering
  • News : THT offers free sexual health training to professionals working with young people
  • News : Weight worry sees child in care
  • News : Brain damaged man wins £5m payout
  • News : Challenging practitioners' attitudes towards young mothers
  • News : Psychiatrist blames absence of positive adults
  • News : NIH News in Health [November 2008]
  • News : RCOG statement on FSA guidance on caffeine consumption during pregnancy
  • News : Nursery schools struggle with troubled and violent children
  • News : Sure Start success in helping children of poor families hailed
  • News : Councils lose judicial review against care fees hike
  • Report : NHS WRT workforce summaries
  • News : Baby born after ovary transplant
  • News : Frozen embryos' health benefit
  • News : Nine 'healthy towns' get £30m pot
  • News : 'Sign up to sensible risk'. Councils across West adopt sensible approach to risk
  • News : Young mothers' depression risk
  • News : A new Act is born: Royal Assent for Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
  • News : The shame of Britain's intolerance of children
  • News : Who should be allowed to adopt?
  • News : Obesity 'programmed before birth'
  • News : Maternity services 'account for half of NHS negligence claims'
  • News : How booze affects the young
  • News : Criminal Records Bureau checks
  • News : Pupils targeted in superbug fight
  • News : Children's trust legislation: Safeguarding a priority
  • News : Child protection stifled by £30m computer system - report
  • News : National Reproductive Health Research Network
  • News : Future generation of antibiotic users to be taught the dangers of inappropriate prescribing
  • News : Rapid care 'cuts baby's HIV risk'
  • News : Anti-social Behaviour Focus Newsletter
  • News : No easy fix: the effects of addiction on children and families
  • News : Hairspray linked to birth defect
  • News : Detention units 'fail on health'
  • News : Royal Colleges call for action on EWTD
  • News : Children and Young Person Act 2008 receives Royal Assent
  • News : More babies being born with Down's syndrome
  • News : Prisoners 'offered' IVF treatment
  • News : Children's Services: Child and adolescent mental health services contributions to area-based grant for 2009-10 and 2010-11
  • News : Test to improve treatment of sick newborns
  • News : Number of Down’s births increase
  • News : Measles figures soar
  • News : Health professionals still at risk of bloodborne viruses through work
  • News : More staff training needed to promote breast feeding when babies leave neonatal care
  • News : Doctors’ working patterns and views are key to success of NHS reorganisations
  • News : Statement from Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson on the joint area review
  • News : Sharon Shoesmith removed after 'devastating' inspection report
  • News : System Failing Children with Cancer
  • News : Caesarean increases asthma risk
  • News : UNC study: parenting can override effect of genes in how babies respond to stress
  • News : New tool on the NHS website allows patients to rate the service they receive in hospitals
  • News : Children not learning about disability in schools
  • News : Adverts warn of cocaine dangers
  • News : GMC set to launch new doctor licensing system
  • News : Scottish employers warned over EWTD breaches
  • News : Top child doctor set to lead medical education
  • News : Keeping Scotland's children safe
  • News : Teachers demand HIV guidelines
  • News : It's not what the papers say, it's what they don't [about MMR vaccine]
  • News : Leadership scheme will tackle 'unique' trials for directors
  • News : Big drop in global measles cases
  • News : NHS Allocations
  • News : Brain tests show child wealth gap
  • News : Poem published to mark NHS 60th
  • News : Stress hits even before pregnancy
  • News : NICE should expand its role to cover quality in the NHS, says Darzi
  • News : Abortion does not cause mental health problems, says large review
  • News : Leadership and management training will help third sector boost leadership skills
  • News : CDC News Digest - Autumn 2008
  • News : Contraceptive Pill to be available without doctor's prescription
  • News : Pregnant exercise 'unsafe'
  • Report : Behind the headlines: Your guide to the science that makes the news
  • News : DH urges work on NHS informatics
  • News : Comply with NICE or pay, Care Quality Commission tells trusts
  • News : Baby protein 'could help bowels'
  • News : Patients take £7.6m a month out of NHS as they choose and book private sector treatment
  • News : Baroness Morgan vows to embed UN child rights charter in UK
  • News : IVF drugs 'increase risk of cancer of womb', study suggests
  • News : Down's treatment before birth
  • News : Down's syndrome Q&A
  • News : Buggy study pushed too far
  • News : Unicef: Poorer children face 'double disadvantage' in early years
  • News : Record MMR levels in Scotland
  • News : Obesity 'set before age of five'
  • News : Genetics of obesity
  • News : Improving workforce is crucial to viability of Europe’s health services, commission says
  • News : Ed Balls appoints Peter Lewis as new Haringey children's director
  • News : RCM Seminar: Introducing the Health in Pregnancy Grant
  • News : Study finds new test highly effective in predicting the onset of preterm labour
  • News : Babies communicate from birth
  • News : MMR jab rates reach record levels
  • News : Baby milk that could prevent eczema
  • News : Integrated Children's System a "burden" to social workers
  • News : Children admitted to hospital due to alcohol increasing
  • News : Making time for the children: one in four parents now put their family before work
  • News : Parliamentary joint committee to hold children's rights inquiry
  • News : Midwifery research scores high in the RAE
  • News : Essex recruits 60 social workers after "inadequate" rating
  • News : Funding gap puts maternity reform at risk
  • News : Action for Children to launch first ad campaign on New Year's Day
  • News : Wealth gap in child critical care
  • News : German paediatricians want law changed to make it easier to report child abuse
  • News : Perinatal mortality in Netherlands third worst in Europe
  • News : Review into the use of restraint calls for change
  • News : Prematurity 'can impair senses'
  • News : Clinical negligence fees set to soar
  • News : Alcohol 'toll on young soaring'
  • News : NHS 'not prepared for hours cut'
  • News : 'Youngest' baby has brain glue op
  • News : 'Child alcohol guide' for parents
  • News : Sector issues New Year resolutions for Children's Secretary
  • News : Government targets obesity rates
  • News : Warning over youth mental health
  • News : Monitoring mental health by text
  • News : Chlamydia tests offered in pubs
  • News : Virginity pledge ineffective against teen sex despite government funding, US study finds
  • News : Teen sport protects bones
  • News : Children keep weight gain
  • News : Best practices sought to tackle child poverty
  • News : Changing Children's Services: working and learning together
  • News : Childhood trauma and ME
  • News : 'Third-hand smoke' danger
  • News : Autism test 'could hit maths skills'
  • News : UK pinpointed for measles figures
  • News : Children 'desensitised' to sexual bullying and assault, survey finds
  • News : Fertility treatment on the NHS is still a postcode lottery: research
  • News : Review author defends his call for staff to be allowed to cause pain
  • News : CRB: Quarter of people know nothing of safeguarding agency
  • News : More friends and emotional security - how northern children top the happiness league
  • News : YJB chief John Drew outlines his plans for the future
  • News : Balls orders intensive training for children's services directors in wake of Baby P tragedy
  • News : Continued increase in measles cases
  • News : Epidural risk lower than thought
  • News : Critically ill child care lacking
  • News : Water softener eczema relief hope
  • News : Breast cancer gene-free baby born
  • News : Children of poorer families face as big a hill as ever
  • News : Doctors push government for ring-fenced EWTD cash
  • News : EWTD vote raises pressure on trusts
  • News : Letter for Directors of Childrens' Services: Change4Life - The national movement to tackle childhood obesity
  • News : Primary care trusts lack the skills to implement Darzi reforms, say MPs
  • News : Epidurals 'safer' than thought
  • News : IVF hope after sperm test success
  • News : 'Needless' birth induction fears
  • News : Heart test aids newborn babies
  • News : Infection setback in prem babies
  • News : Aid for postnatal depression
  • News : Premature infection blow
  • News : 'Drink link' to premature birth
  • News : £1.4m Programme to tackle child obesity launched - Mind, Exercise, Nutrition... Do It! (MEND) Programme
  • News : Concern over premature baby drugs
  • News : Nearly a quarter of communities could be failing children
  • News : Support for mothers-to-be smokers
  • News : Doubt over child steroid tactic
  • News : Pregnant drinking risks
  • News : NHS needs to fast track integrated care to survive credit contraction
  • News : Cash for child medicine research
  • News : Ministers consider plan to expand free childcare
  • News : Alarm over security of children's database
  • News : Practitioners and service user leaders join Social Work Taskforce: DCSF announces full membership of taskforce
  • News : Childhood stress 'can damage immune system and long-term health'
  • News : Change4Life launches largest ever children's health survey
  • News : Department of Health welcomes the King's Fund report on new Centre of Excellence for workforce planning
  • News : Learn from banking crisis and stamp out competition in the NHS, says BMA chairman
  • News : Lasting effect of concussion
  • News : Too many children at risk in secure estate, Anne Owers says
  • News : Childhood in Britain 'ruined by lack of outdoor play and aggressive advertising'
  • News : Obama drops funding from bill, alarming family planning groups
  • News : '1,000 more therapists' needed for children
  • News : Government urged to reform new inspection regime
  • News : Pregnant smokers 'fear criticism'
  • News : Children's Workforce Network eBulletin Issue 14
  • News : Supporting the Families of Young Disabled Children
  • News : New smokefree campaign aimed at pregnant women
  • Report : Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin - Issues from March 2005 onwards
  • News : Second edition of the Early Support Service Audit Tool published
  • News : Early Support in Wales
  • News : Drinking too much water is bad during childbirth
  • News : Agency publishes annual measles figures for 2008
  • News : Viewpoint: “Children should not be treated as criminals”, says Europe Commissioner
  • News : Alcohol limits for children
  • News : Sunlight and young bones
  • News : Test for postnatal depression
  • News : A good childhood - read the national press coverage online
  • News : Risks to pregnant women at work are small
  • News : Lack of health visitors puts a strain on GPs
  • News : Pregnancy risks for obese women
  • News : Maternity units 'shut to mothers'
  • News : ContactPoint: practitioners harbour doubts
  • News : Obese mothers 'risk spina bifida'
  • News : Discovery of new cause for fractures among children who were adopted has "painful" lessons for doctors
  • Report : Women’s compliance with nutrition and lifestyle recommendations before pregnancy: general population cohort study
  • Report : Comparison of different strategies in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome: cost effectiveness analysis of computer simulation
  • News : NHS needs to prepare for era of non-invasive fetal DNA tests
  • News : Teenage pregnancies, positive parenting, young fathers and incentives
  • News : Obesity 'is risk in pregnancy'
  • News : Test fertility as regularly as going to the dentist, women told
  • News : Teenagers 'should get a booster meningitis C vaccine'
  • News : Targeted child protection inspections
  • News : Cafcass receives fourth damning inspection in a year
  • News : Children are main victims of recession
  • News : Breastfed baby risk investigated
  • News : New cannabis campaign shows teenagers the uninvited side effects
  • News : Urgent action needed in light of Joseph Rowntree Foundation Research
  • News : Study highlights lack of awareness about TB in pregnancy
  • News : Heart disease linked to increase in maternal death in the UK
  • News : Teens hold the key to quitting
  • News : NHS 'lacking' on child protection
  • News : Baby hip screening plan 'failing'
  • News : Hope over peanut allergy 'cure'
  • News : Second Baby P doctor is suspended
  • News : Girl, 14, burnt in tanning salon
  • News : Baby P: GSCC confirms interim suspensions for social workers
  • News : 'Cure for peanut allergies'
  • News : Warning over child ear infections
  • News : Third of smaller charities unaware of vetting scheme
  • News : Legal aid changes will focus help on most vulnerable families and children
  • News : Autism-vaccine link rejected by US courts
  • News : Department of Health: Reform of the complaints system
  • News : Prison self-harm levels revealed
  • Presentation : Autism proposals to be unveiled
  • News : Lesbian couple win NHS baby case
  • News : Baby died after 'mother's kiss'
  • News : Vaccine pulled over bacteria fear
  • News : Boy died of acne tablet reaction
  • News : The Childrens Society Magazine Spring 2009
  • News : Cold drugs 'do not work on children and can cause hallucinations'
  • News : Diet and exercise project for pregnancy
  • News : Designer baby row over US clinic
  • News : Fluoride will be added to water to reduce tooth decay
  • News : Health Minister announces £3.5million to strengthen child protection services
  • Report : New support package to reduce teen pregnancies
  • News : Too quick to assume depression?
  • News : Stillbirth rate 'still too high'
  • News : Muscular Dystrophy Campaign raps NHS over equipment provision
  • News : 'Surgery for obese children'
  • News : TV and asthma risk
  • News : Family Fund ready to help PCTs with their short breaks provision
  • News : Judgement on holiday entitlement could affect employers
  • News : Vegetarians and birth defects
  • News : New workforce development helpline
  • News : Projects helping young people affected by alcohol misuse
  • News : World-class Commissioning for Children and Young People with Speech, Language and Communications Needs: Invitation to become a commissioning pathfinder
  • News : Government failing to protect asylum-seeking children
  • News : 'If mum drinks, baby drinks'
  • News : YoungMinds: No support for most young people on waiting lists
  • News : 'Chocolate tax' to tackle obesity
  • News : Many premature pupils 'struggle'
  • News : Ed Balls outlines children's director leadership scheme
  • News : Action for Children seeks evidence base for early intervention
  • News : Warning over child hospital care
  • News : New commission to help shape the future of midwifery and nursing
  • News : BJOG release: Maternal methadone use and the consequences on baby
  • News : Early babies 'struggle at school'
  • News : Baby bottle chemical is removed
  • News : New agency for a new era in mental health
  • News : Ofsted: 40% of SCRs in past six months inadequate
  • News : Free gym classes for under-fives
  • News : Judge urges national eligibility guidelines for children's social care
  • News : Sir Paul Beresford MP: The key to child safety
  • News : Increase in midwife staffing levels
  • News : Recruitment body expresses concern over costs of new safeguarding authority
  • News : Opinion poll shows impact of Baby P case on protecting children
  • News : 4Children launches 18-month inquiry into extended family
  • News : Anti-smoking ad 'scares children'
  • News : Merger creates largest guideline centre in UK
  • News : NHS Wales to implement c-section toolkit
  • Website : Care Quality Commission launches
  • News : Tests on recalled meningitis vaccine show no contamination
  • News : Wales teen abortions rising
  • News : Film warns Durham youngsters to butt out
  • News : Cartoons to identify autism
  • News : Infection link to leukaemia
  • News : UK teens 'binge drink'
  • News : Eating during labour
  • News : New IVF guidance
  • News : Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures: The strategy for children and young people’s health - Disabled children and safeguarding for all
  • News : More abused children need to be taken into care, says NSPCC head Andrew Flanagan
  • News : Sedation 'link to birth defects'
  • News : Surrey loses bid to challenge Ofsted children's services rating
  • News : Members of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health call on the Chancellor to Keep the Promise
  • News : Overweight NHS midwives targeted in new initiative
  • News : Dementia 'clue' in the young
  • News : Babies at risk from vitamin E?
  • News : Obesity 'linked to ADHD'
  • News : Medical radiation examinations on women of child bearing age
  • News : Women stressed in pregnancy 'more likely to have children with asthma'
  • News : Pollution link with birth weight
  • News : Purnell: welfare reform is about putting families first
  • News : Inquiry into children's home sedative use ruled out
  • News : Home births 'as safe as hospital'
  • News : Alan Steer: Access to Camhs vital in tackling pupil misbehaviour
  • News : Midwife numbers 'to fall short'
  • News : RCOG statement on the paper on perinatal mortality and morbidity rates by de Jonge et al published in BJOG on 15 April 2009
  • News : Maternity services
  • News : Councils face funding cuts for disabled children's breaks
  • News : Fears grow over the sexualisation of young people
  • News : Hope for child cancer treatment
  • News : South Asian youths 'less active'
  • News : Safeguarding regulations to be delayed
  • News : Pollution linked to smaller babies
  • News : Home birth 'safe as in hospital'
  • News : Baby resuscitation 'linked to IQ'
  • News : The Children's Society responds to report on looked-after children
  • News : RCOG statement on maternal position during the first stage of labour
  • News : Ulcer gels warning for children
  • News : NHS maternity spending falls in first year of DH strategy for improving services
  • News : Tackling inequalities from the ground up
  • News : New advice on oral salicylate gels in under 16s
  • News : Use of NHS Number in Social Care: Policy statement
  • News : Women value safety over choice
  • News : Milk protein clue to big babies
  • News : Children 'not exercising enough'
  • News : The Children's Society calls on Ministers to protect children from unfair treatment
  • News : Meningitis cases hit record low
  • News : TB vaccine enters new trial stage
  • News : BMA sets out plans to tackle EWTD training challenge
  • News : Compulsory sex education plan
  • News : Save the Children urges government not to abandon child poverty pledge
  • News : Laming tells child protection managers to shield frontline
  • News : Breast milk battle
  • News : Bed sharing 'risks babies' lives'
  • News : Swine flu virus kills child in US
  • News : Equality and Human Rights Commission calls for radical approach to parental leave that gives mothers and fathers real choice
  • News : Children’s Charity ACT launches new guide to support the development of children’s palliative care services
  • News : Campaign to stop to prevent child sexual abuse launched
  • News : Centre to study health incentives
  • News : Call for local practice examples
  • News : Poor sleep 'causes ADHD'
  • News : Babies to get new growth charts
  • News : Morning sickness 'ups baby IQ'
  • News : NSPCC Training - courses and resources for anyone working to safeguard children
  • News : Ministers 'missing the point' after they stall on funding
  • News : Vaccine update – Hib booster campaign proves successful
  • News : MHRA authorises temporary distribution of unlicensed medicine
  • News : Wales Rated Poorly on Preventing Childhood Accidents
  • News : European Working Time Directive Derogation
  • News : Folic acid cuts baby heart defects
  • News : South Asian children miss dentist
  • News : Task force demands ICS overhaul
  • News : Smoking gene link in pregnancy
  • News : Department of Health/ NHS Information Centre publish new quality indicators for NHS
  • News : Sick Welsh babies' 'greater risk'
  • Method : Think tank calls for Kitemark for children's charities
  • News : Diet and mental health in teens
  • News : Diabetes in children 'to double'
  • Report : Evaluating Sure Start: Interprofessionalism and parental involvement in local programmes
  • News : Network of European midwifery regulators planned
  • News : Children's social workers struggle with high caseloads
  • News : WHO backs anti-diarrhoea vaccine
  • News : Drug habits see a 'major shift'
  • News : Record number of young people in England treated for drug or alcohol problems
  • News : Skin cancer on rise among 15-34s
  • News : Warning over car seats for babies
  • News : NHS Choices: Early pregnancy complications
  • News : NHS Choices: Endometriosis and birth complications
  • News : BBC: Study nails secret of child sleep
  • News : A test for premature birth?
  • News : 'Fat mums have fat daughters'
  • News : Swine flu drugs for the pregnant
  • News : DH: Awareness campaign launched as measles rises
  • News : BBC: Boredom 'fuels teen alcohol use'
  • News : Community Care: Social work practice pilot will reward professionals
  • News : NHS Choices: Folic acid debate continues
  • News : NHS Choices: Child leukaemia genes found
  • News : Community Care: CWDC urges fostering services to access training funds
  • News : Behind the headlines: Can brain training aid children?
  • News : BMA: Doctors call time on alcohol promotion
  • Report : NELM: Exposure to antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy linked to adverse outcomes
  • News : Behing the headlines: Paracetamol affects childhood jabs
  • News : Behing the headlines: Cot death risk of shared sofa sleeping
  • News : Behing the headlines: Cancer from mother to child
  • News : Community Care: Social care highlights from the National Children and Adult Services Conference 2009
  • News : RCOG release: RCOG issues new guidance on vitamin supplementation in pregnancy
  • News : Teachernet: The really good school dinner [Campaign]
  • News : Behind the headlines: Pregnant smoking linked to child tantrums
  • News : Behind the headlines: Full-fat milk 'link to BMI'
  • News : BMJ: Relatively high infant mortality in US is due to number of preterm births, report says
  • News : DH: Health Act 2009 receives royal assent
  • News : CommunityCare: Conservatives would publish serious case reviews in full
  • Report : SFH: New National Occupational Standards for psychological therapies
  • Report : HSJ: Reporting on incidents
  • News : NOO News: issue 4
  • Method : RCM: Smoking when pregnant causes pelvic pain
  • Report : CommunityCare: Councils may get health commissioning role
  • News : C4EO: New Change model resource launched
  • News : RCM: Obese women more likely to have unplanned pregnancies
  • News : BBC: Simple test could detect Down's
  • Report : Checking for pregnancy before surgery: summary of a safety report from the National Patient Safety Agency
  • News : Baby Friendly News
  • Report : CommunityCare: What is the alternative to CAFCASS?
  • News : NHS Choices: Can men get the baby blues?
  • Report : CommunityCare: Detecting child abuse among elite child athletes
  • Media : Guardian Focus podcast: Why do record numbers of young people have sexually transmitted infections?
  • Report : NHS Choices: Paracetamol asthma link 'uncertain'
  • Website : NHS allocations
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 3 - 9 January 2011
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 17 - 23 January 2011
  • News : BBC: Children are at risk of getting rickets, says doctor
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 31 January - 6 February 2011
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 7 - 13 February 2011
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 14 - 20 February 2011
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 21 - 27 February 2011
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 28 February 2011 - 6 March 2011
  • Report : New programme will promote maternal and infant nutrition
  • News : NT: Midwife-led maternity units under threat
  • News : DH: Bump to breastfeeding resource – now online and available to order
  • News : Save the Children: UK families take poverty message to Downing street
  • News : BBC: Health groups reject alcohol deal
  • News : NHS Choices: Breastfeeding 'linked to school grades'
  • News : NHS Choices: New genetic clue to peanut allergy
  • News : BBC: Woman known as a 'fat teenager' struggles with weight loss (audio)
  • News : Community Care: Barnardo's to run welfare services at new immigration removal centre
  • News : Community Care: Minister unclear on disabled children’s social worker role
  • News : Barnardo’s warns of ‘pending catastrophe’ for poorest
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 7 - 13 March 2011
  • News : CRIN: Ireland - Child rights referendum to be held & child welfare agency to be set up
  • News : CommunityCare: Council u-turn on scrapping Big Society child protection scheme
  • News : FSA: Introduction of gluten into an infant’s diet
  • News : RCM: Expert claims cosleeping safer than the cot
  • News : RCM: Derby PPC team set to Shine
  • News : BBC: Worries over orthorexia disorder
  • News : NT: DH makes nurse and midwife workforce review a priority
  • News : Community Care: Sector heads urge rethink on child protection commissioning
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 14 20 March 2011
  • News : BBC: 'Pre-eclampsia genes' discovered
  • News : VIDEO: School Report: Life of a young carer
  • News : Contact a Family: Relate support for families with disabled children
  • News : BMJ: Alcohol marketing to children
  • News : BBC: Schools need help with 'special needs influx'
  • News : BBC: Annual health survey under threat
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 21 - 27 March 2011
  • News : NHS Choices: Pregnant drinking and child behaviour
  • News : BBC: Many mothers 'given risky advice'
  • News : Community Care: Bid to scrap Youth Justice Board opposed by Lords
  • News : Community Care: Children in care prioritised to receive education bursaries
  • News : NAS: Court of Appeal clarifies law on 'looked after'
  • Media : BBC AUDIO: Do alcohol ads affect children?
  • News : RCM: Challenging times ahead for Northern Ireland maternity services say midwives launching manifesto
  • News : BBC: Midwife shortage 'costs 1m lives'
  • News : DH: Twenty centres to put health visitors at the heart of the community
  • News : Transition Information Network (TIN) Spring 2011 Briefing
  • News : Together for Children materials available on the National College website
  • News : RCM: More protection needed, says Baby Lifeline
  • News : NHS Choices: "Sleep affects weight loss"
  • News : NHS Choices: Paracetamol in pregnancy linked to asthma
  • News : BMJ: Funding of audit of maternal and perinatal deaths has been suspended, UK agency reports
  • News : CommunityCare: New ADCS president wants more radical solutions to SEN
  • News : DH: Early implementer sites launched and recruitment of 4,200 extra health visitors begins
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 4 - 10 April 2011
  • News : RCM: Midwives seek inclusion in NHS commissioning report
  • News : BBC: Worries over skin cancer in young
  • News : UNICEF: Launch of the European Parliament 'Alliance for Children'
  • News : HSJ: Shaping young people's services with young people's input
  • News : ACT: APPM Master Formulary launched
  • News : BBC: Pre-pregnancy DNA tests approved
  • News : NT: Safety reflex may be linked to cot death
  • News : Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin April 2011
  • News : BBC: England bans under-18 sunbed use
  • News : DH: Funding for 2011-12 substance misuse specialist interventions and treatment in the children and young people’s secure estate
  • News : MBRRACE - UK: Interim arrangements for reporting maternal and perinatal deaths
  • News : TES: Positive parenting scheme 'raised IQs'
  • News : BBC: Travellers put on measles alert
  • News : CommunityCare: Government reviews director of children's services role
  • News : NPSA: Head Injury in Children project
  • News : NT: Health dangers of prolonged night shifts revealed
  • News : RCM: Midwives ‘should be at heart of NHS commissioning’
  • News : RCM: Infant mortality rates soar in 14 trusts
  • News : Learning Disability Today: People with complex needs require a specialist commissioning body
  • News : Community Care: Anger over removal clause in new children's homes contract
  • News : NHS Choices: Heavy metals in baby food measured
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 28 March - 3 April 2011
  • News : CommunityCare: CAF can save councils more than £150,000 per child
  • News : NSC: Policy reviews completed for antenatal chlamydia, hepatitis B and C in ethnic minorities born outside the UK and glomerulonephritis screening
  • News : BBC: Worrying levels of iodine deficiency in the UK
  • News : BEAT: Eating disorder charity announces obesity now included in its services
  • News : Community Care: Social workers sound the alarm over child protection
  • News : NHS Choices: Wrist size 'a marker of blood sugar'
  • News : Community Care: Government says social workers must blow the whistle
  • News : BBC: Children 'have wider waists now than in 1978'
  • News : HPA: Tick Lyme disease off your holiday list
  • News : BBC: 'Premature birth gene' discovered
  • News : CommunityCare: Ofsted should be split in two, say MPs
  • News : BBC: Parents 'want child gene tests'
  • News : NHS Choices: Gene 'linked to premature birth'
  • News : NAS: Families of disabled children legally entitled to short breaks
  • News : LTD: Family Action slams plans to cut disability benefit
  • News : BBC: Mother's diet 'can make kids fat'
  • News : RCOG TOG release: Severe nausea and vomiting of pregnancy should be treated with appropriate medication
  • Report : NHS Choices: Research links another gene to ADHD
  • News : NHS Choices: Treatment for morning sickness discussed
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 11 - 17 April 2011
  • News : Community Care: Councils accused of imposing adoption age limit
  • News : RCM: Most keep mum about taking natural remedies
  • News : NHS Choices: Can your pregnancy diet 'make your child fat'?
  • News : Community Care: Domestic violence cuts put 200,000 children at risk
  • News : CommunityCare: NSPCC records largest ever increase in referrals
  • News : BBC: Government loses abortion battle
  • News : BBC: Pregnancy trial to use heart drug
  • News : NT: Bedwetting impacts childhood happiness
  • News : NMC Review
  • News : NHS Choices: Crying babies and later behavioural problems
  • News : BBC: Early detection is key to premature birth numbers rise
  • News : Screening Matters Issue 1
  • News : CommunityCare: Hospital admissions reflect rise in child protection thresholds
  • News : NT: Northern Lincolnshire reconfigures community midwife service
  • News : ePolitix: Children need PSHE education
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 18 - 24 April 2011
  • News : BBC: Check for autism in one-year-olds
  • News : BMJ: Doctors call for “radical” package of reforms to children’s services
  • News : CWDC: Support to work with parents and families continues
  • News : NHS Choices: Researchers link spring births to anorexia
  • News : Community Care: Sharp fall in number of serious case reviews carried out
  • News : NT: Training funds diverted to meet health visitor target
  • News : NHS Choices: Chilli peppers 'help to burn fat'
  • News : NT: Midwife shortage at Croydon hospital highlighted by regulator
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 2 - 8 May 2011
  • News : BBC: Call for thyroid screening in pregnancy
  • News : Schools4Life: Free trial of Wellbeing Foundation Tool available now
  • News : NT: Passive smoking link to hypertension in boys
  • News : Free AbilityNet support packages for AAC / AT services supporting children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs
  • News : BBC: Prolonged bottle-feeding 'increases obesity risk'
  • News : BBC: Many parents 'anti sex education'
  • News : BBC: Child leukaemia 'no nuclear link'
  • News : NHS Choices: Asthma pill tested against inhalers
  • News : Community Care: ASBO reforms could put children at risk, warns Barnardo's
  • News : BBC: Breastfed babies 'develop fewer behaviour problems'
  • News : UK Screening: Updated leaflet translations
  • News : BBC: Hospital starts new ante-natal class - for men only
  • News : BMJ: Fewer children in England and Wales are dying violently, figures show
  • News : NHS Choices: Nuclear power 'not source of leukaemia'
  • News : BBC: Drug trial to prevent obese kids
  • News : HSJ: Young patients oppose child cardiac changes
  • News : Home Office: Child protection to be part of new crime agency
  • News : NHS Choices: Are breastfed babies better behaved?
  • News : RCM: MIDIRS and NCT merge
  • News : BBC: Sickle cell drug 'helps children'
  • News : BBC: Parental strife 'affects babies'
  • News : DfE: Independent review into child protection says: Free professionals from central Government control to let them do their jobs properly
  • News : Contact a Family: Skill closes
  • News : NHS Choices: Drug eases sickle cell in babies
  • News : NHS Choices: Is a hormone behind postnatal depression?
  • News : BBC: Teach 'kiss of life' in schools
  • News : HPA reminds parents of importance of MMR
  • News : NT: Trainee health visitors warn minister there are no jobs
  • News : NHS Choices: Call to ban mobiles and WiFi from schools
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 9 - 15 May 2011
  • News : NIHR: Pioneering computer game helps treat sight-threatening disease in children
  • News : RCOG: Electronic Fetal Monitoring project launched to improve birth outcomes and reduce medical litigation
  • News : NT: DH finalising programme to develop school nursing
  • News : BBC: Supplement 'helps pre-eclampsia'
  • News : BBC: Hypnobirthing tested at Tameside General Hospital
  • News : NSPCC launches Helpline text service to report child abuse
  • News : TIN: Local authorities challenged to renew commitment to disabled children
  • News : Schools4Life: Students premiere stop smoking films in Hackney
  • News : NHS Choices: Does 'eating for two' make mums gain weight?
  • News : Community Care: Council chief moots national parenting support scheme
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 16 - 22 May 2011
  • News : UK NSC: Changes to leaflet distribution
  • News : NHS Choices: Are children getting weaker?
  • News : NHS Choices: Children taken to A&E with 'routine complaints'
  • News : BBC: Donkey milk can help children with milk allergies
  • News : Home Office: UK's Child Protection Centre to lead national response on missing children
  • News : HSJ: Public health funding cut threatens skilled staff
  • News : NHS Specialised Service: Testing families’ travel patterns for children’s heart surgery services
  • News : BBC: Measles outbreak prompts jab plea
  • News : RCM: Midwives fear for safety of maternity care on Welsh midwife numbers drop
  • News : Tommy's: Test for pre-eclampsia developed
  • News : HSJ: International index finds UK obesity growing
  • News : DH: You're Welcome quality criteria: making health services young people friendly (news)
  • News : BBC: Why fathers have post-natal depression
  • News : CWDC: Sorting safer recruitment
  • News : DH: Improving health services for vulnerable children and young people
  • News : NHS Choices: Lack of sleep and child obesity
  • Event : NHS Choices: Games consoles 'cause arthritis' claim
  • News : Community Care: Unison warning over funding cuts for child asylum seekers
  • News : BBC: Poverty link to starting periods younger
  • News : NHS Choices: 'Master switch gene for obesity'
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 23 - 29 May 2011
  • News : NHS Choices: Energy drinks 'not good for children'
  • News : NT: Child paracetamol prescribing not to recommendations
  • News : RCM: Danger of early labour targeted by new study
  • News : BBC: Proposal to give newborns TB jab
  • News : BBC: Calls for Strep B tests for pregnant women
  • News : The Independent: Babies at risk as girls fail to get enough iodine
  • News : BBC: Cystic fibrosis research 'delay'
  • News : NT: NMC to bring education quality monitoring 'in house'
  • News : New children's paracetamol limits
  • News : NHS Choices: Mobile phones 'a possible carcinogen'
  • News : NHS Choices: What factor sunscreen?
  • News : BBC: TB vaccination for all London newborns proposed
  • News : NHS Choices: Epilepsy drugs 'raise birth defect risk'
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 30 May - 5 June 2011
  • News : The Telegraph: Rich children 'have superior vocabularies by age of five'
  • News : BBC: Hospital in baby car seat trials
  • News : NHS Choices: Concern over iodine levels in girls
  • News : Healthfinder: Study ranks mental health as young people's top health problem
  • News : Community Care: Rethink on children's home contract after sector anger
  • News : Community Care: Children's homes urged to prove their benefits
  • News : NHS Choices: Nicotine 'obesity drug' needs more study
  • News : NHS Choices: Experts predict meningitis B vaccine
  • News : Baby Friendly News
  • News : BBC: Drinks firm Diageo funds pregnancy health initiative
  • News : Guardian: Comfort or conflict: Earlier Down syndrome test
  • News : Children, Families and Maternity e-Bulletin June 2011
  • News : NHS Choices: Do childhood pets affect allergy risk?
  • News : Barnardo's: Child victims of sexual exploitation ‘failed by the system'
  • News : HPA: STIs drop for first time in a decade while testing and chlamydia screening rise
  • News : Healthy Weight for Children Hub e-Newsletter June 2011
  • Website : YPF: Major re-vamp of the Young People in Focus website
  • News : NHS Choices: HPV vaccine results do not apply to UK
  • News : NHS Choices: Teen drinking linked to parents' habits
  • News : NHS Choices: Mother's sleeping position and risk of stillbirth
  • News : NT: Sleeping on left side may reduce risk of still birth
  • News : AFC: The true face of young carers and the diminishing support for them
  • News : BBC: Cerebral palsy families call for better NHS treatment
  • News : CAPT: CAPT Survey shows child safety not automatic
  • News : BBC: NHS patient to receive revolutionary asthma treatment
  • News : BBC: Cystic Fibrosis drug offers fresh hope to sufferers
  • News : Community Care: Sex offender misunderstanding puts children at risk
  • News : RCPCH publishes position statement on breastfeeding
  • News : RCPCH - New campaign asks parents to be brain tumour aware
  • News : DPPI: Two thirds disabled parents dissatisfied with parenting support
  • News : NHS Choices: Diet, lifestyle and long-term weight gain
  • News : Community Care: All young offenders 'should be given looked-after status'
  • News : BBC: MMR vaccination call after Ceredigion measles outbreak
  • News : BBC: MMR vaccine rate increase prompts measles warning
  • News : BBC: Scottish health boards 'complacent' over asthma care
  • News : NOO Knowledge Update: 20 - 26 June 2011
  • News : CLG: Community Budgets to be rolled out countrywide
  • News : MoJ: Clarke: plans outlined to reduce reoffending
  • News : DH: £1 million boost for health and wellbeing boards
  • News : NT: Childhood asthma linked to small foetus size
  • Report : NHS Choices: Are sweets 'good for kids'?
  • News : NHS Choices: Babies 'detect emotion in voices'
  • News : BBC: 500,000 overweight children 'at risk of liver disease'
  • News : NHS Choices: Mobile phones 'unlikely to cause brain tumours'
  • News : NHS Choices: Research into IVF embryos
  • News : DfE: Government sets out reform of early learning and children’s centres
  • News : NHS Choices: Alcohol 'may damage a baby's DNA'
  • News : Community Care: Children's commissioner to investigate sexual exploitation
  • News : NHS Choices: Major new exercise guidelines announced
  • News : NT: Fears health visitor supply could soon outstrip demand
  • News : RCM: Student midwives to get drugs training
  • News : NHS Choices: Smoking in pregnancy link to birth defects
  • News : Community Care: Child protection assessment deadlines to go by end of year
  • News : Baby Friendly News: Three new university courses achieve Baby Friendly status
  • News : RCM: Disparity between midwife numbers and birth rate demands increases
  • News : RCM: Perinatal and maternal data collection remains vital
  • News : NHS Choices: Asthma 'linked to premature babies'
  • News : BBC: School sun care policy 'must change'
  • News : RCOG: e-LfH / RCOG / RCM / NMC electronic fetal monitoring (eFM) project update
  • News : BBC: Binge drinking 'can damage memory skills' in teen girls
  • News : BMJ: Women at low risk of complications should be able to have all their antenatal care in midwife led units, says college
  • News : UK Screening Portal: New process for ordering the English antenatal and newborn booklets
  • News : RCM: More midwives needed as birthrate rockets
  • News : AFC: Survey launched to establish short breaks facts – Northumberland parents’ views sought
  • News : CommunityCare: Half of all children in homes placed out of area
  • News : HSJ: MPs urged to step in over children's heart unit closure
  • News : NHS Choices: Passive smoking 'linked' to hearing loss in teens
  • News : CRIN: Call to protect children from harmful and unnecessary institutionalisation
  • News : NMC: Midwife teachers play ‘unique role’ in ensuring newly qualified midwives are fit for practice - independent report finds
  • News : BBC: Fears raised over teenage diets
  • News : NHS Choices: Study on nicotine patches in pregnancy
  • News : NHS Choices: 'Stressed baby' story needs more study
  • News : BBC: Bubble baby syndrome risks for children of cousin marriage
  • News : Community Care: First tri-borough children's services director
  • News : Community Care: Removing assessment targets may hit child protection funding
  • News : RCM: New maternity role improving quality of care for Scottish mothers
  • News : RCM: Most pregnant mothers back routine domestic violence questioning, reveals survey
  • News : RCM: Maternity REACTS
  • News : ADA: Parenting style impacts type 1 diabetes control in children, adolescents
  • News : Reuters Health: Childhood pets linked to lower allergy risk
  • News : BBC: Substandard care linked to maternal deaths in London
  • News : The Independent: 31 SureStart centres close
  • News : BBC: Fewer teenagers drinking alcohol
  • News : CommunityCare: Social pedagogues fail to improve outcomes in children's homes
  • News : ePolitix: 'Social media can blur the boundaries'
  • News : Guardian Online: Children's eating disorder figures cause alarm
  • News : Guardian Online: Deprived parts of England will lose out under health reforms
  • News : C4EO: Request for practice examples: adoption/fostering
  • News : RCM: Midwife film goes global
  • News : BBC: Models 'not to blame' for eating disorders in children
  • News : NHS Choices: Unplanned babies' learning examined
  • News : NHS Choices: Mixed opinions on fast food labels
  • News : False Economy: More than 2,000 charities and community groups face cuts
  • News : Community Care: Council set to close children's homes
  • News : DH: A stronger voice for patients
  • News : Nursing Times: New health visitor task force will be a 'critical friend' to the government
  • News : NHS Choices: Do pylons cause asthma in babies?
  • News : BMJ: The wrong way to highlight problems in maternity care
  • Media : BBC: Leeds to become first breastfeeding friendly city
  • News : BBC: Baby heart defect test 'could save lives'
  • News : NELM: FDA drug safety communication: Long-term, high-dose use of fluconazole during pregnancy may be associated with birth defects
  • News : Children's Society: Sexual Health Project receives Department of Health Funding
  • News : C4EO: Early Years sector-led quality improvement programme - April 2011 - March 2013
  • News : tac: Improving children and their families lives through a new e-learning programme at Coventry University
  • News : Children, Families and Maternity e-Bulletin August 2011
  • News : NHS Choices: Some foods 'too high in salt for babies'
  • News : NHS Choices: Simple test finds baby heart defects
  • News : AFC: Children's charity ‘Graffitis' Belfast to combat neglect
  • News : AFC: Youth service teach Halton how to cook up a storm
  • News : C4EO: Call for "Emerging Practice" examples
  • News : ICPCN: Children's Voices for World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2011
  • News : BBC: Campaign to widen midwife recruitment in Wales
  • News : Community Care: Measures to tackle Cafcass family courts backlog ditched
  • News : Children's Society: Leading charities call for government action for disabled children
  • News : Welsh Government: Deputy Minister determined to put Families First
  • News : BBC: Persistent depression risk 'doubles' in abused children
  • News : BBC: 'Cot death risk' to small babies
  • News : CommunityCare: Lack of parenting support funds fuels riots debate
  • News : BBC: Parents 'need baby food cookery classes'
  • News : BBC: Call to tackle 'rickets comeback'
  • News : RCM: Tackling obesity in pregnancy saves money in long run say midwives
  • News : BMJ: Anorexia in young children: press coverage was flawed
  • News : BBC: Why do so many mums stop breastfeeding?
  • News : NHS diabetes paediatric newsletter – August edition
  • News : The Independent: How maternity wards cash in on mothers
  • News : BBC: Children aged four in Wales' A&Es for drink and drugs
  • News : Guardian: Teens are left to their own devices as council axes all youth services
  • News : BBC: Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care at 65
  • News : UK Screening: Antenatal and newborn eLearning module and animated timeline updated
  • News : BBC: Big response to children's heart surgery consultation
  • News : BMJ: Drinks industry is using social networking to promote alcohol to young people, report warns
  • News : DH: New health visitor taskforce
  • News : CommunityCare: Number of short breaks more than doubles in three years
  • News : TCT: Grants for small organisations to support disabled children and their families
  • News : NHS Choices: Gene therapy treats immune disease
  • News : NHS Choices: Sibling risk of autism examined
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 3, July - August 2011
  • News : YPF: Young People in Focus (YPF) has ceased trading
  • News : NHS Choices: Doctors should have more maternity training
  • News : Community Care: Pressure mounts on ministers to save Youth Justice Board
  • News : Guardian: Middle class flock to private antenatal care as cuts bite
  • News : DfE: Government announces £6 million for children in care and families who need extra support
  • News : BBC: North Yorkshire NHS trust bans elective Caesareans
  • News : RCOG: Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring (eFM) launch - 13 September
  • News : Children's Society: Young carers and their disabled parents set to lose out on thousands of pounds
  • News : BBC: US stroke rates 'rising in young'
  • News : DH: Government prioritises children’s oral health in new dental contract trials
  • News : Home Office: Would you spot abuse?
  • News : ERIC: Helpline is now open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • News : King's Fund: Health and Wellbeing Boards bulletin
  • News : RCGP: Sensory and learning disability access awareness sessions for GP practices
  • News : BBC: Why spotting the best acne treatment is a pain
  • News : Barnardo's: Cut Them Free – Barnardo’s Scotland asks local supporters to join the battle against child sexual exploitation
  • News : The Children's Society: 6,000 children will be left to fend for themselves in the legal aid cuts
  • News : CYPN: Government's riot prevention legislation would infringe children's rights
  • News : Home Office: Community action against crime: innovation fund
  • News : DH: Nurses and midwives urged to get the seasonal flu vaccine
  • News : BBC: Women could be given right to choose Caesarean birth
  • News : NHS Choices: Research into blood test for premature birth
  • News : NHS Choices: Pregnancy food allergy claims unfounded
  • News : NHS Choices: Study examines mortality in bereaved parents
  • News : NHS Choices: Ibuprofen may ‘raise miscarriage risk’
  • News : Community Care: Register of restorative justice experts is launched
  • News : BBC: Our children need time not stuff
  • News : CommunityCare: LSCB good practice not dependent on resources, says Ofsted
  • News : The Independent: Midwife shortage 'dangerously high'
  • News : BBC: Why your child's care should be moved
  • News : Gingerbread: Thousands of children may go without vital money as a result of child maintenance reforms
  • News : BBC: Low-fat yoghurt 'child asthma risk' during pregnancy
  • News : CommunityCare: Parent Infant Projects to help parents bond with babies
  • News : DfE: Parents to be given new freedoms to run their local children's centres
  • News : Barnardo's: Family intervention projects halve anti-social behaviour
  • News : AfC: Children's centre invites local dads to sign up for breastfeeding classes
  • News : DfE: Government trials parenting classes for all parents of children under five
  • News : DfE: Funding for deprived pupils set to double
  • News : HPA: As students return to university HPA reminds of meningitis and measles risk
  • News : RCM: Wales needs more midwives says RCM
  • News : Community Care: DWP - 70,000 more families with disabled children to be hit by benefit cuts
  • News : The Tavistock & Portman: International Training School for Infancy and Early Years coming soon
  • News : The Children's Society: Events, website to support black and minority ethnic carers and families
  • News : DfE: 20 pathfinders to test out proposals in the special educational needs and disabilities Green Paper
  • News : DfE: £50 million to help pupils get ready for secondary school
  • News : NICE: Fighting food allergies among schoolchildren
  • News : BBC: Risks of overeating when pregnant
  • Report : BBC: Maternity map: births to midwives
  • News : RCM: Petition for more midwives almost on track for 100,000 signatures
  • News : RCM: Umbilical cord blood collection 'poses risks'
  • News : BBC: Gastric band weight loss ops on the rise for under-25s
  • News : Community Care: CAMHS cuts see younger children miss out on support
  • News : SEN: Disability and deaf arts festival announced
  • News : NHS Choices: Video games 'blur reality', claims newspaper
  • News : BBC: More scans recommended for unborn twins and triplets
  • News : CommunityCare: Spending on child death reviews set to double
  • News : DH: Seasonal flu immunisation programme 2011/12 – Viroflu® vaccine and risk of fever in children under 5 years
  • News : RCN: Apply now for bursaries and scholarships
  • News : BBC: The debate over closing child heart surgery units
  • News : RCOG/RCM statement on cord blood collection and banking
  • News : NHS Choices: Teenagers influenced by smoking in movies
  • News : Community Care: Disabled children's services see spending increases
  • News : Community Care: Asylum-seeking children and family support suffer most cuts
  • News : NAS: NAS urges Government not to isolate those with disabilities
  • News : BBC: Charge for non-medical Caesarean
  • News : RCM: Senior midwives face falling budgets and staff cuts despite massive midwife shortage
  • News : BBC: Antenatal advice 'perpetuates C-section myths'
  • News : Howard League: More than 17,000 children are separated from their mother every year through imprisonment
  • News : King's Fund: Health and Wellbeing Boards bulletin - Sep 2011
  • News : Midwives Magazine: The maternity maze
  • News : NHS Choices: Postnatal depression 'often unreported'
  • News : Ofsted: Children's centres self-evaluation form guidance
  • News : BBC: North Wales child 'health inequalities' worry - report
  • News : Community Care: 30,000 more disabled children in poverty than previously thought
  • News : RCGP: Colleges join forces to improve maternal care
  • News : Indicators: The official newsletter of the International Society for Child Indicators (October 2011)
  • News : HIW: Local Safeguarding Children Boards are not demonstrating their impact on children's lives
  • News : NOO: Evidence on a page
  • News : NHS Choices: Tanning 'damages deep skin layers'
  • News : Action for Children: Parents cook up money-saving plans in Doncaster
  • News : DH: £20 million to knock down mental health stigma
  • News : DfE: Prime Minister welcomes progress on tackling commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood but says more must be done
  • News : LDT: Campaign for good postural care launched
  • News : Number 10: New troubled families team
  • News : BBC: 'Eat less, exercise more', says government on obesity
  • News : RCOG TOG release: Reasons why women request caesarean sections need to be explored more by clinicians
  • News : BBC: Obesity 'worse for teen girls' blood pressure'
  • Method : Public Services by Design: Transforming public services through expert mentoring
  • News : NHS Choices: Birthweight link to autism not clear
  • News : NHS Choices: Scare over miscarriage scans unjustified
  • News : NHS Choices: Researchers examine 'fertility switch'
  • News : ABA: Anti-bullying week 2011
  • News : BBC: Let's talk about alcohol - the new birds and the bees
  • News : BBC: Parents 'should approve skin piercings for under-16s'
  • News : Imperial College: Premature babies at risk of ill health in later life, research suggests
  • News : BBC: IQ 'can change in teenage years'
  • News : CommunityCare: LSCB's to be reminded of duty to publish SCRs in full
  • News : CommunityCare: Government still undecided on early intervention duty
  • News : NT: Health minister 'disappointed' over falling health visitor numbers
  • News : DC&LG: Eric Pickles: It's time to stop leaving problem families in crisis
  • News : NHS Choices: Pregnant women advised to get flu jab
  • News : NHS Choices: Facebook and brain changes
  • News : NHS Choices: Mobiles 'don't increase brain cancer risk'
  • News : NMC: NMC welcomes House of Lords recommendation for language testing of EU trained nurses and midwives
  • News : Community Care: Disability groups merge to form largest user-led charity
  • News : Guardian: Unicef criticises Britain for jailing children over riots
  • News : DH: Children and teenagers to benefit from successful adult mental health therapy
  • News : NHS Choices: Labour induction methods compare favourably
  • News : NHS Choices: Do fizzy drinks make teens violent?
  • News : NHS Choices: BPA chemical studied for behaviour changes
  • News : JFHC: Risks of child gastric bands may be greater than rewards
  • News : BBC: CDC panel recommends HPV shot for boys
  • News : CommunityCare: Social workers underestimate the 'fragility' of babies
  • News : RCN: Calls for adequate staffing levels for children’s nurses
  • News : DH: National Child Measurement Programme – publication of legal Directions
  • News : CRIN: Breakthrough towards banning smacking
  • News : Healthy Weight for Children Hub e-Newsletter October 2011
  • News : BBC: Hospital patients 'still at risk'
  • News : BMJ: Too few hospitals belong to children’s surgical networks, says inquiry
  • News : BBC: Children claim alcohol intake of 28 units a week
  • News : DfE: Government launches the Adopters' Charter
  • News : BBC: Sheffield hospital plans teenager gastric balloon trial
  • News : NHS Choices: New caesarean guidelines put forward
  • News : LDT: Disability charities to merge
  • News : DfE: Savings accounts for all children in long term care
  • News : AfC: Adoptive parents from minority groups needed now more than ever, says national children's charity
  • News : DH: All children really want this Christmas is their parents to quit smoking
  • News : BBC: Progeria may be treated by drug, researchers say
  • News : AfC: ‘Tiny Teachers’ help tackle bullying in Scottish schools
  • News : Barnardo's: Scandal of Britons who have given up on children
  • News : RCM: Hospital employs 20 new midwives
  • News : BBC: How psoriasis can damage young people's quality of life
  • News : BBC: Diabetes breath test trials on Oxfordshire children
  • News : NHS Choices: Do big babies turn into obese kids?
  • News : UoY: York study will track health and wellbeing of children and adults
  • News : NAS: Media response: adoption and autism
  • News : BBC: Clock change 'stops outdoor play'
  • News : BBC: Pre-eclampsia predicted using test during pregnancy
  • News : BBC: Sexual health experts warn of new syphilis threat
  • News : BMJ: Number of children admitted to hospital with viral disease rose markedly last year
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 4
  • News : RCM: Fewer women are giving birth at home
  • News : RCM: New study on how midwives cope with trauma
  • News : RCM: Food safety worries parents-to-be
  • News : b-eat: Survey shows increase in link between bullying and eating disorders
  • News : NHS Choices: Brain study suggests autism starts in the womb
  • News : NHS Choices: Mobile phones risk discussed
  • News : BBC: Should new dads sleep in hospitals? (video)
  • News : Guardian: 124 Sure Start centres have closed since coalition took power
  • News : RCM: Improvement needed in community maternity services - new survey reveals women on lower incomes getting poor deal from maternity services
  • News : Community Care: Councils fail to keep figures on missing children in care
  • News : BBC: Delay cord clamping for baby health, say experts
  • News : NHS Choices: Childhood IQ 'linked to adult drug use'
  • News : Community Care: Most social workers threatened in past six months
  • News : BMJ: UK government disbands advisory group on obesity
  • News : DH: Further advice needed on vaccinating healthy children against flu
  • News : CommunityCare: DH and DfE integrate health reforms with Munro
  • News : BBC: Call for mandatory PE tests alongside maths and reading
  • News : CommunityCare: Social workers urged to forge closer links with Sure Start
  • News : CommunityCare: All young offenders 'should be given looked-after status'
  • News : JRF: How do we know there are Children in Need?
  • News : NHS Choices: Study looks at self-harm in young people
  • News : NHS Choices: Do computer games mess with kids' minds?
  • Report : NHS Choices: Doctors call for ban on smoking in cars
  • News : NHS Choices: Child paracetamol dosages updated
  • News : Community Care: Government orders 'rapid review' of adoption
  • News : NHS Choices: 'On demand caesareans' recommended on the NHS
  • News : BBC VIDEO: Woman's experience of requesting Caesarean
  • News : DH: Personal health budgets update – October 2011
  • News : CommunityCare: Council fined for child protection botch
  • News : CommunityCare: Sexual exploitation action plan includes extra training for workers
  • News : The Lancet: The Male circumcision debate flares in the USA
  • News : The Telegraph: Children allowed to be picky eaters develop allergies
  • News : NHS Choices: Births at home or in hospital: risks explained
  • News : NHS Choices: Risk from chemical in canned soup overstated
  • News : BBC: Scottish nursing and midwife jobs decrease
  • News : Barnardo's: More than one child a day in Scotland admitted to hospital as a result of self-harming
  • News : CYPN: Early intervention could be key theme of next spending review, Cameron indicates
  • News : King's Fund: Health and Wellbeing Boards bulletin - Nov 2011
  • News : BBC: WHO issues Europe measles warning
  • News : NOO: NOO News, December 2011
  • News : NHS Choices: Coffee shop caffeine: pregnancy health risk?
  • Event : Time to Change Children and Young People's Programme workshop
  • News : BBC: Northern Ireland teenagers' tooth decay levels among worst in Europe
  • News : Community Care: Government launches missing children strategy
  • News : CYPN: YJB to issue National Insurance advice to young offenders
  • News : BBC: NHS deal for private midwife firm
  • News : RCM: Caesarean section rate still too high, says RCM responding to new maternity figures
  • News : BMJ: Child health is under threat from NHS reforms, says report
  • News : BMJ: Childhood obesity can be prevented, says Cochrane
  • Media : Unravelling Eve: postpartum psychosis (BBC radio 4 programme)
  • News : RCM: First private company to win maternity care contract
  • News : RCM: Call for alcohol warnings for pregnant women
  • News : BBC: Children's Hospital for Wales: £63.8m expansion backed
  • News : CYPN: Schools struggle to tackle truancy as education welfare services decline
  • News : BBC: Age of criminal responsibility 'too low', experts say
  • News : NHS Choices: Chronic fatigue syndrome 'cause of school absence'
  • News : BBC: Obesity rising slightly in primary school leavers in England
  • News : BBC: Troubleshooters to be sent in to help problem families
  • News : 10 Downing Street: Tackling troubled families: new plans unveiled
  • News : BBC: Child penicillin doses should be reviewed, say experts
  • News : BBC: A quarter of young women 'have had sex under age'
  • News : CommunityCare: Government rejects Munro early intervention duty
  • News : UKNSC: Recommendations on screening for alcohol problems, child hypertension, familial hypercholesterolaemia, fragile X, hepatitis C in pregnancy, postnatal depression, pre-eclampsia and toxoplasmosis
  • News : DH: Children, Families and Maternity (CFM) bulletin December 2011
  • News : BBC: Food firms 'market to children online'
  • News : NHS: Do children’s Christmas toys pose a hearing risk?
  • News : NHS Choices: Loud music 'changes the way alcohol tastes'
  • News : NHS Choices: Call to boost child penicillin doses
  • News : King's Fund: Health and Wellbeing Boards bulletin - Dec 2011
  • News : NHS Choices: Can the sun stop chickenpox?
  • News : DH: New public health system takes shape as more details published
  • News : Screening Matters Issue 5
  • News : BBC: Healthy food plan for families
  • News : BBC: Sexual health teams 'should offer alcohol advice'
  • News : UNICEF UK: Statement on vitamin D supplementation for breastfed babies
  • News : NHS Choices: 2011's best health news
  • News : DH: Children and young people's mental health - recent developments
  • News : NHS Choices: Exercise 'may boost school performance
  • News : JFHC: Midwives have “grey” concerns
  • News : NiP: UK universities 'struggle' to recruit midwife teachers
  • News : NiP: Trainee health visitor numbers on the up
  • News : BBC: Hypothermia warning for young drinkers
  • News : RCOG: Key issues in sexual health explored in free public talk
  • Dataset : Approval of Maternity and Children's Dataset
  • News : Community Care: Ministers order first official study into adoption breakdown
  • News : NHS Choices: Does maternal diet raise diabetes risk?
  • News : Barnardo's: Barnardo's reveals desperate need of older children in care
  • News : The Scotsman: Call to give pregnant women the chance to visit maternity ward
  • News : DH: Government accepts new recommendations from NHS Future Forum
  • Presentation : 2011 Baby Friendly Conference: Speakers' presentations
  • News : HPA: New guidelines to control group A streptococcal (GAS) infections in UK hospitals launched
  • News : CYPN: Distribution of early intervention grant sparks concerns
  • News : BMJ: Appeal court will rule on children’s heart surgery at London’s Royal Brompton Hospital
  • News : NDCS: New guide seeks to ease deaf teenagers’ move to adult services
  • News : NHS Choices: Breastfed babies cry more than formula fed babies
  • News : CYPN: Discontent widespread among children, study shows
  • News : BBC: Guidelines on preschool food from School Food Trust
  • News : BBC: Speech services cuts 'leave children struggling'
  • News : Community Care: Going into care early reduces risk of offending, study finds
  • News : NHS Choices: Confusing claims over internet addiction
  • News : LE: Maternity company One-to-one says home births now account for up to 40% of its Wirral patients
  • News : Tommy's: New book launched: Having a premature baby
  • News : Barnardo's: Little is happening to protect child sex victims
  • News : Barnardo's: Barnardo’s Scotland reveals desperate need of older children in care
  • News : BBC: Meningitis jab ‘protection hope’
  • News : BMJ: Traditional birth attendants are an effective resource
  • News : NeLM: Data from long-term follow up of CAP trial evaluating neonatal caffeine therapy for apnoea of prematurity published
  • News : NIHR: Incentives for breastfeeding and smoking cessation
  • News : UKNSC: Leaflet translations now more accessible
  • News : CommunityCare: Half of social workers feel 'powerless' to stop neglect
  • News : UKNSC: CHT screening in preterm infants
  • News : ACT: New module - Management of the palliative care of the child with life-limiting disease
  • News : ACT: Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate in Childhood Bereavement
  • News : NiP: NHS Future Forum slams 'inconsistent' nurse training
  • News : NiP: NMC forced to withdraw 'unlawful' sanction guidance
  • News : DH: Helping people live healthier lives: the future for public health
  • News : CYPN: Duke of Edinburgh scheme keen to involve more children with additional needs
  • News : BMJ: Editorial sparks debate over when Canadian parents should be told the sex of an unborn child
  • News : Telegraph: Vitamin D deficiency in UK a 'major problem'
  • News : BBC: Sink taps source of infection that killed three babies
  • News : NIHR: NIHR funds research projects to tackle obesity in children and adults
  • News : GMC: New guidance prevents doctors being ‘gagged’ and says they must raise concerns about patient safety
  • News : DWP: Putting children first – £20 million to help separating families
  • News : NMC welcomes strategic review
  • News : NHS Choices: Medical chief highlights importance of vitamin D
  • News : NHS Choices: Autism detected in brains of six-month-old infants
  • News : NT: 20% of pregnant women 'rely on internet' for antenatal information
  • News : Community Care: Ofsted to give no notice on child protection inspections
  • News : BBC: Scottish stillbirth rate lowest on record
  • News : NIHR: Children show protected immunity from pandemic flu vaccine one year later
  • News : BBC: East Yorkshire's only natural birth centre to remain closed
  • News : DH: Amendments to Health and Social Care Bill published
  • News : YoungMinds: The need for Regional Youth Boards
  • News : King's Fund: Health and Wellbeing Boards bulletin - Jan 2012
  • News : RCM: New partnership to help with weight issues
  • News : BBC: How we can help children improve their health
  • News : Justice: Major overhaul to reform family justice system
  • News : MoJ: Major reforms to family justice system
  • News : DH: Dangers of vitamin D deficiency highlighted
  • News : BBC: 'Care needed' in child custody law change
  • News : NHS Choices: Diabetes 'increases birth defect risk'
  • News : BBC: Welsh government targets smoking in cars when children present
  • News : BBC: NHS nappy sack safety campaign goes national
  • News : NIHR: New service helps teenagers terrified of the dentist
  • News : NIHR: Launch of clinical trials online resource Healthtalkonline and Youthhealthtalk
  • News : Indicators: The official newsletter of the International Society for Child Indicators (February 2012)
  • News : CLS: More than one in four UK children facing multiple risks to development
  • News : RCM: Prime minister under fire for ‘broken promise’
  • News : RCM: Midwife-led birthing centre to close
  • News : RCM: Pilot stage of trauma study completed
  • News : RCM: US home births on the up
  • News : BJOG: Severe post partum haemorrhage less likely with a planned caesarean section, finds study
  • News : GI: U.S. teen pregnancy rate at lowest level in nearly 40 years
  • News : BBC: School children offered contraceptive implants
  • News : BBC: IVF clinics told to cut multiple births to 10%
  • News : BBC: Welsh assembly hold inquiry into neonatal baby care
  • News : JNN: Babies are dying needlessly in the UK through ignorance and unavailability of tests routinely offered in other western countries
  • News : RCM: Wellbeing of Women entry level scholarships
  • News : DH: Department seeks partners for reaching young people
  • News : IAPT: Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Project – Launch of offer for 2012-13
  • News : NHS Choices: Does moving house damage child health?
  • News : NHS Choices: Spoon-feeding compared with 'baby-led' weaning
  • News : NHS Choices: Chemo during pregnancy likely to be safe
  • News : NHS Choices: Breastfed babies 'less angry as adults'
  • News : BBC: Does outdoor play help keep the doctor away?
  • News : Community Care: Record child referrals push social workers to breaking point
  • News : BBC: 'Failures' over toddler's death
  • News : CommunityCare: Councils fined after failing to keep sensitive children's data safe
  • News : UoS: New devices could hold key to predicting premature births
  • News : RCN calls for sustained investment in school nursing
  • News : NiP: Daily stints in front of the TV linked to child asthma risk
  • News : BBC: Newsbeat's Booze Calculator
  • News : NiP: UK black women have double the risk of pregnancy complications
  • News : BBC: 'Fewer crisps for healthy teenagers but some skip meals'
  • News : AFC: Largest ever study into adolescent depression
  • News : DH: Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin February 2012
  • News : BBC: More pregnant women in northern England smoke
  • News : ACT: East of England Neuromuscular Care Advisors
  • News : EMA: European Medicines Agency concludes review of dose recommendations for anti-tuberculosis medicines used in children
  • News : NHS Choices: Pregnant women with dogs walk more
  • News : NHS Choices: Sweet breakfast cereals 'too sugary for kids'
  • News : Daily Record: Doctors vow to cut sad toll of 300 babies stillborn every year as mums reveal agony
  • News : Guardian: What Britain could learn from Denmark's childcare model
  • News : Mumsnet: Childhood and parenting in today's Britain
  • News : NHS Choices: Weight loss advice 'ignores body changes'
  • News : BBC: Home treadmill burns risk warning from Swansea and Birmingham surgeons
  • News : BBC: Young carers need more support, says Tyneside teenager
  • News : NiP: Alcohol film images link to teen binge drinking
  • News : YoungMinds: Charities appeal to young people not to suffer self-harm in silence
  • News : NHS Choices: New clues to fighting baby muscle disease?
  • News : DH: Too many young people “suffering in silence” with mental health problems
  • News : NHS Choices: Wii fitness games 'no health boost'
  • News : CYPN: Suicide teenager failed by health trust's 'shambolic' communications
  • News : Relate: Counselling charity Relate sees increase in mental health issues amongst young clients
  • News : Guardian: How I managed to stop self-injuring and get on with my life
  • News : BBC: Calls for a return to 1950s-style maternity care
  • News : RCM: Increased conception rate underlines need for more midwives
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 6
  • News : NHS Choices: Babies born early 'at higher risk of illness'
  • News : BBC: Campaigners call for compulsory drug and alcohol education
  • News : NHS Choices: Is ice cream really 'addictive like drugs'?
  • News : Tommy's: Trying to quit? Take part in a UCL study of online tools for quitting smoking in pregnancy
  • News : BBC: Parents back pre-watershed junk food advertising ban
  • News : BBC: Fewer premature births after smoking ban in Scotland
  • News : BBC: Councils to be paid to improve parenting skills
  • News : BBC: 'Child behaviour link' to snoring
  • News : HPA: A measles outbreak is continuing on Merseyside
  • News : The Independent: Warning that health reforms could increase cot deaths
  • News : DH: Enthusiasm and challenges
  • News : NHS Choices: Premature births 'fell 10% after smoking ban'
  • News : NHS Choices: Can exercise change your DNA?
  • News : C4EO: Call for Emerging Practice Examples: Young People's Services
  • News : DfE: Joint ministerial message from Sarah Teather and Paul Burstow to local authority teenage pregnancy leads and wider stakeholders
  • News : NHS Choices: Inhalers 'linked to child health problems'
  • News : NDCS: BME families of deaf children in Edinburgh and Lothian’s to get help
  • News : NIHR HTA: Incentives for breastfeeding and smoking cessation
  • News : DH: New health maps to drive children's health improvements
  • News : BBC: Child alcohol awareness 'higher than for some foods'
  • News : NIHR: Study shows that womb rupture is rarer than previously thought
  • News : NiP: Worrying trend of baby 'swaddling' on the rise
  • News : RCM: Midwife shortage can leave women feeling unsupported on breastfeeding
  • News : BBC: Call for pre-watershed ban on junk food advertising
  • News : BBC: Cot deaths advice 'did not reach deprived areas'
  • News : CommunityCare: Wales faces radical shake-up of social work regulation
  • News : DH: Regulation of foods for young children to be simplified
  • News : DH: Update on the current and future maternity workforce
  • News : RCN: Tight swaddling causes hip problems
  • News : NHS Choices: Baby feeding times and IQ: link uncertain
  • News : NHS Choices: Does our time in the womb make us fat?
  • News : Community Care: County to privatise child mental health services
  • News : The Guardian: Devon NHS children's services set for privatisation
  • News : CELCIS: More infant mental health services needed
  • News : NHS Choices: Child back pain 'linked to school bags'
  • News : NHS Choices: Birth pain relief options compared
  • News : DH: Palliative care pilot sites announced
  • News : DH: Forty children’s hospices to benefit from grant
  • News : JFHC: Majority of young parents want courses on raising kids
  • News : BBC: New tech helps kids with diabetes
  • News : NPSA: Harm from flushing of naso gastric tubes before confirmation of placement
  • News : NHS Choices: Heart-related collapses like Muamba's are rare
  • News : DH: Immunisation against infectious disease - The Green Book - 2006 updated
  • News : RCM: Drama and serious computer gaming for midwives
  • News : DH: Public Health Responsibility Deal launches new alcohol pledge
  • News : FI: Fatherhood Institute tells Britain’s schools and nurseries: it’s time to ‘dad up’!
  • News : Home Office: Ambitious plans to turn the tide on irresponsible drinking
  • News : Alcohol Concern: Spend more of £2 billion health budget on alcohol – or new drinks strategy will struggle
  • News : DH: Public Health Responsibility Deal announces new food pledge
  • News : NHS Choices: Ban on cheap booze 'to cut binge drinking'
  • News : NHS Choices: Some pizzas 'saltier than the sea'
  • News : BBC: Cleft lip research launched in UK
  • News : NT: £200,000 funding for childhood continence project
  • News : Family Policy Digest March 2012
  • News : NIHR: New study to assess new treatments for epilepsy
  • News : NICE: 123 new quality standards announced
  • News : DH: Health and Social Care Bill gains Royal Assent
  • News : Guardian: Free parenting classes for families with under-fives
  • News : BMJ: European researchers are urged to do more trials in children, conference hears
  • News : DCLG: Troubled Families: top 10 areas are on board as Government is ready to go
  • News : TIN: Include us in new disability plan, young people tell Government
  • News : UKNSPC: Changes to the current policy for CHT screening in preterm infants - education and training resources available
  • News : Prince's Trust xl club speaks out against smoking
  • News : BBC: NHS North Yorkshire and York reduces spending on child mental health
  • News : ATL: A third of education staff have dealt with physical violence from pupils in this school year, with parents failing to back schools - ATL
  • News : BBC: TV ad shows danger of 'invisible secondhand smoke'
  • News : BBC: Charity calls for clarity over child cardiac services review
  • News : DH: Campaign warns of dangers of secondhand smoke
  • News : DH: New major trauma centres to save up to 600 lives every year
  • News : The Guardian: Do we need parenting classes?
  • News : DH: Latest topics referred to NICE: March 2012
  • News : NHS Choices: Early days for 'thyme acne treatment'
  • News : JHFC: Smoke free homes pilot a success
  • News : NHS Choices: Baby obesity research: no need to panic
  • News : NHS Choices: Fast food 'linked to depression'
  • News : CYPN: Young people reluctant to access GP health advice
  • News : NHS Choices: Pessary possibly postpones prematurity
  • News : BBC: Janet Balaskas: campaigner for active birth movement
  • News : RCOG release: Revised guidelines on shoulder dystocia emphasise the need for training for all maternity staff
  • News : CRIN: X-ray pilot for child asylum-seekers sparks outrage
  • News : HO: 'Sarah's Law' protects more than 200 children in first year
  • News : HO: CEOP head speaks out on child protection
  • News : CYPN: Less than 10 per cent of child sex offences result in conviction
  • News : DH: Duncan Selbie confirmed as Chief Executive Designate of Public Health England
  • News : Uni of York: Recent parents and NHS staff urged to make their voices heard
  • News : BBC: Obesity and diabetes link to child disorders
  • News : BBC: Newborn screening to be expanded in pilot study
  • News : BMJ: Study identifies behaviours in young children that might prevent obesity
  • News : Ofsted: Early years: April 2012
  • News : The Guardian: NHS failings that left babies with brain damage set to cost £235m
  • News : NHS Choices: Study 'links autism to maternal obesity'
  • News : CYPN: Disadvantaged Scottish families less likely to access health visitor checks
  • News : BBC: Warmth 'gives babies pain relief' during vaccination
  • News : NiP: Teamwork 'crucial' to school sexual health success
  • News : BBC: Whooping cough baby deaths' link
  • News : NiP: Vitamin D 'does not enhance teen brainpower'
  • News : BBC: Doctors unite to combat obesity
  • News : CYPN: England charts highest child protection rise in the UK
  • News : NHS Choices: Sharp rise in whooping cough cases
  • News : C4EO: C4EO and Wave Trust are seeking new practice examples of evidence-based interventions at the earliest possible time
  • News : DH: A&E data sharing audit underway
  • News : DH: 430,000 babies to be screened for five extra rare conditions in newborn screening pilot
  • News : North Bristol NHS: Pioneering new programme launched in Bristol to protect babies
  • News : NiP: Brits underestimate sugar content of 'healthy' drinks
  • News : DfE: £500,000 scholarship scheme launched for SEN support staff
  • News : ERIC: eNews
  • News : CYPN: Young homeless people suffer increased mental and physical health problems
  • News : BBC: Early milk feeds 'benefits premature babies'
  • News : DH: Childhood primary immunisation rate at record levels
  • News : Action for Children: Child neglect law: The case for reform
  • News : BMJ: Prosecution of parents over baby’s death raises controversy over diagnosing child abuse
  • News : DH: Operational guidance for Child Measurement Programme published
  • News : DH: Health Secretary sets out objectives for NHS Commissioning Board Authority
  • News : NHS Choices: New drug 'stops common cold asthma deaths'
  • News : NHS Choices: Study says home births 'cost-effective'
  • News : BBC: NHS care is 'disjointed' say family of anorexia victim
  • News : BBC: Widen over-the-counter pill access, says NHS report
  • News : DH: Update on adults’ and children’s palliative care and funding for children’s hospices
  • News : HPA: Comprehensive review on mobile phone technologies finds no solid evidence of health effects
  • News : The Telegraph: Fathers 'just as likely to suffer postnatal depression'
  • News : CYPN: Young people to have role in shaping health services
  • News : CYPN: Hodgson attacks coalition's record on early intervention
  • News : NiP: Early puberty in girls raises risk of teen pregnancy
  • News : The Telegraph: Fears women could be forced to give birth without doctors: campaign group
  • News : RCOG: Not enough is known about prescription drug use in pregnancy, say experts
  • News : RCM: Births to stop at two midwife-led units
  • News : NT: RCM to launch online initiative to track maternity cuts
  • News : Mail Online: Magistrate attacks care system saying it 'criminalises children' by prosecuting for trivial matters
  • News : NHS Choices: Bullied children more likely to self-harm
  • News : NHS Choices: Mobile phone cancer link unproven, says HPA
  • News : BBC: Weight-loss surgery for children 'can change lives'
  • News : BBC: Behaviour units 'keep pupils out of jail'
  • News : NHS Choices: London 'has high rate of childbirth deaths'
  • News : DH: Deadline extended for comments on children and young people’s health outcomes
  • News : AFC: Make a difference to vulnerable families in Bristol
  • News : CYPN: Law change call for young defendants with communication problems
  • News : 4Children: Most local authorities failing to take child poverty seriously
  • News : CDC: CDC recruiting parents of disabled children for focus groups
  • News : EDCM: Personal Independence Payments must help disabled young people to establish independent living
  • News : Scope: Dad and Me
  • News : CYPN: Legal aid and sentencing bill receives Royal Assent
  • News : Community Care: Ombudsman raps councils over service failures for disabled girl
  • News : The Guardian: Early intervention is key to supporting troubled families
  • News : BBC: Overdue babies: 'Risks for those born after 42 weeks'
  • News : BBC: Measles on Merseyside: Outbreak reaches more than 200 cases
  • News : BBC: Scottish children 'shunning' fizzy drinks, says WHO study
  • News : BMJ: Fifteen million and rising—the number of premature births every year
  • News : BMJ: Childhood obesity increases blood pressure in adolescence, study shows
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 7
  • News : TSL: Charter launched for the care of life-limited and life-threatened children and their families
  • News : NHS Choices: ADHD 'more common in overdue children'
  • News : NHS Choices: PE lessons 'put girls off exercise'
  • News : CYPN: Charities warn against reduction in maternity leave
  • News : NDCS: Deaf Awareness Week
  • News : CYPN: 'Patchy' training on genital mutilation issues leaves girls at risk
  • News : BBC: North East young in alcohol warning
  • News : BBC: France's autism treatment 'shame'
  • News : The Guardian: Coalition to unveil family-friendly agenda in Queen's Speech
  • News : The Telegraph: More help for families to be unveiled in Queen's Speech
  • News : AAA: Legal right to educational support for disabled young people extended to 25 in Queen's Speech
  • News : The Independent: Come clean on child poverty failure, Alan Milburn tells Government
  • News : DH: Children and Families Bill to give families support when they need it most
  • News : BBC: Extreme breastfeeding: Should children be nursed for years?
  • News : BBC: Children in Hackney wait longest for adoption
  • News : BBC: Queen's Speech: Children and families feature
  • News : BBC: Steven Gerrard and Jamie Oliver call on PM to fight obesity
  • News : BBC: Induction cuts risk of babies dying, researchers say
  • News : BBC: Child deaths: Preventable infections 'the leading cause'
  • News : CYPN: Two fifths of new mums struggling to cope, says NSPCC
  • News : CYPN: New foster care placement needed every 22 minutes
  • News : CYPN: Family therapists warn against unaccredited practitioners
  • News : CYPN: Anti-smoking service targets young people in Wales
  • News : The Guardian: Children start dieting as young as 10
  • News : DfE: Ending the Ofsted annual Children's Services Assessment
  • News : BBC: 'The Trouble with Kane'
  • News : WCRF: Only a fifth of Britons getting their recommended '5 a day'
  • News : CYPN: Youth custody levels reach new low
  • News : CYPN: Services must protect older children to prevent sexual exploitation
  • Report : DfE: Sarah Teather and Tim Loughton write to stakeholders about the Children and Families Bill
  • News : DfE: Families to be given personal budgets for special educational needs support
  • News : The Telegraph: Child benefit plan will be a disaster, warns institute
  • News : DfE: Protecting children from commercialisation and sexualisation - next steps on Bailey
  • News : The Independent: IVF clinics accused of putting money before safety
  • News : The Telegraph: Parenting vouchers "might not benefit those who need it"
  • News : RCM: Survey shows women let down
  • News : NHS Choices: How common are repeat abortions?
  • News : The Guardian: Parents to control special education needs budgets
  • News : CYPN: Families win right to personal budgets for SEN support
  • News : BBC: Brain surgery boost for children with severe epilepsy
  • News : AFC: 'Tiny Teachers' help tackle bullying in Cardiff schools
  • News : NDCS: Campaign success: UK Government to change law on help for deaf children
  • News : CYPN: Luton praised for quality of youth justice work
  • News : DH: NHS Patient Feedback Challenge uses online crowdsourcing to collect ideas and support projects
  • News : CYPN: Kinship carers ‘overlooked’ because of adoption focus
  • News : NHS Choices: Can our mother's weight affect our adult health?
  • News : SEN: Milestone for NHS deaf screening programme for babies
  • News : DH: Government pledges support for women with postnatal depression and improvements to maternity care
  • News : The Guardian: Mothers to get 'named midwife' under plan to combat postnatal depression
  • News : Community Care: Reviewing officers say they are silenced by councils
  • News : Community Care: Social workers reject government's adoption reforms
  • News : 4Children: "Family life is vitally important to the country, and must be protected"
  • News : DH: Prime minister announces support for families
  • News : NHS Choices: Pregnancy: weight control cuts complications
  • News : DfE: Ending the Ofsted annual Children’s Services Assessment
  • News : The Telegraph: Failure to treat tens of thousands of mothers creating riots generation
  • News : CYPN: Government hails success of National Citizen Service scheme
  • News : NHS Choices: Email and text tips for mums and dads
  • News : SEN: Foster care "time bomb"
  • Media : DH: The power of information
  • News : DfE: Tim Loughton addresses Community Care Live
  • News : The Guardian: Child grooming: what social workers should know
  • News : BBC: Childhood 'screen time': warning over TV and computers
  • News : BBC: 'Concerns' over cardiac service at Yorkhill Sick Children's Hospital
  • News : NHS FASP: Now available: 11 condition leaflets for health professionals
  • News : Community Care: Social workers promised reduced information burden
  • News : Unicef UK: The great GP challenge
  • News : Home Office: Antisocial behaviour White Paper
  • Report : Pathways from crime: ten steps to a more effective approach for young adults in the criminal justice process
  • News : BBC: Birth weight among social mobility checks - Nick Clegg
  • News : DH: Start4Life partners Hollywood film to support healthier pregnancies
  • News : Community Care: Munro: adoption reforms may undermine my review
  • News : AFC: Experts gather in Edinburgh for country's first national inquiry into child neglect
  • News : Community Care: Knowledge gap puts social workers at risk of breaking law
  • News : BBC: C-section 'may double risk of childhood obesity'
  • News : DWP: Wage incentive for young disabled people announced
  • News : UK NSC: Recommendations on screening for Asymptomatic bacteriuria, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Cytomegalovirus and Rubella susceptibility
  • News : RCM: Smoking in pregnancy worryingly high say midwives
  • News : HO: Support for young victims of sexual violence and gangs
  • News : DfE: Tim Loughton at the Safe and Sound National Conference
  • News : BBC: Jamie Oliver says he has 'given up on politics'
  • News : NiP: Nursing Forum orders bi-annual nursing skill mix reviews
  • News : DH: Safeguarding girls at risk of female genital mutilation
  • News : Community Care: Social workers intervening earlier since Baby P case
  • News : Ofsted: Raising standards in foster care
  • News : BBC: School children need compulsory body image lessons, say MPs
  • News : BBC: Paul Burstow announces £60 million of funding for hospices
  • News : AYPH: Join the new GP Youth Health Champions Project
  • Report : Community Care: What difference has Munro made to frontline social work?
  • News : Scotsman: 2–year–olds to have mental health check
  • Media : BBC: Obese teens - should the state do more?
  • News : BBC: IVF 'higher risk of complication'
  • News : BBC: Pseudomonas families say lack of information added to grief
  • News : Community Care: Social workers need more understanding of most difficult youngsters post-Rochdale
  • News : NHS Choices: CT scans 'linked to brain cancer risk'
  • News : NHS Choices: Disney 'to ban junk food adverts'
  • News : CYPN: Government invites parents to run children's centres
  • News : Midwives: Women’s Institute to vote on midwife shortage
  • News : BBC: Repeat abortions are increasing
  • News : IPPR: Being NEET is no fun at all
  • News : NHS Commissioning Board: Proposed configuration and member practices for CCGs published
  • News : NSPCC: Calls about neglect to NSPCC double in two years
  • News : CIM: Parents want strong action to tackle inappropriate marketing to children, research shows
  • News : The Guardian: 'Three-parent babies' cure for illness raises ethical fear
  • News : BBC: Premature birth linked to worse mental health
  • News : RCM: More midwives animation launched
  • News : BBC: Scientists unveil extensive child cancer research data
  • News : CommunityCare: Safeguarding boards told to publish more child protection reviews
  • News : DH: Social Enterprise Investment Fund to reopen for applications
  • News : BBC: What caused the obesity crisis in the West?
  • News : HQIP: MBRRACE-UK appointed to conduct the National Maternal, Newborn and Infant Review Programme
  • News : BBC: MP Sarah Wollaston concerned children exploit alcohol loophole
  • News : BBC: Rapid rise in Scots children with bowel diseases
  • News : BBC: Salt content warning over children's meals
  • News : HPA: Vaccine uptake at all time high on Merseyside
  • News : NHS Choices: Body mass index 'may not reflect child obesity'
  • News : BBC: Parents warned over fake thermometers
  • News : BBC: Children with older fathers and grandfathers 'live longer'
  • News : NHS Choices: Fertility: underpants news is overblown
  • News : JRF: Relative #ukpoverty does not always fall in recessions
  • News : DfE: Bureaucracy axed to put vulnerable children first
  • News : NICE: Free British National Formulary smartphone app for NHS England
  • News : RCM: Breastfeeding Awareness Week, 24-30 June 2012
  • News : ESRC: Children, brain development and the criminal law
  • News : DH: Children’s Hospice and Hospice-at-Home Grant 2012/13
  • News : Best Beginnings: Neonatal Clinical Workshops
  • News : DH: Let’s get going this summer with Games4Life
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  • News : CaF: Free training from the Challenging Behaviour Foundation
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  • News : Best Beginnings: Small Wonders makes big splash at national launch
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  • News : DH: New working group to help families juggle work and caring responsibilities
  • News : BBC: EEG brain trace 'can detect autism'
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  • News : JFHC: British mums get active in support of Breastfeeding Awareness Week
  • News : BBC: Suicidal teenagers 'let down' by parts of health service
  • News : NHS Choices: 'Preventable' stillbirths and social inequality
  • News : Scope: Fathers with disabled children feel marginalised
  • News : EDCM: Government plans to remove DLA and PIP from disabled people who travel abroad for more than four weeks
  • News : NHS Choices: Teenage pregnancy death concern
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  • News : Midwives: 'Stress in pregnancy causes eczema'
  • News : BBC: Research shines light on childhood multiple sclerosis
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  • News : Midwives: NHS24 call centre proposed to advise pregnant women
  • News : BBC: Teen pregnancy rate in Scotland falls but misses target
  • News : DH: Apply now for 2013-14 voluntary sector partnership awards
  • News : DfE: How are the children? Achievement for all in the 21st Century: Speech by Michael Gove
  • News : Public Health Commissioning Network newsletter - May 2012
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  • Report : MEND: Parents fear talking about their child's weight will lead to an eating disorder
  • News : BBC: UK's first 'healthy' pizza created in Scotland
  • News : MoJ: Child abuse loophole closed
  • News : NHS Choices: Does smacking kids make them mentally ill?
  • News : C4EO: Primary Prevention – cheaper than cure, better outcomes for children - conference presentations now available
  • News : HQIP: Safeguarding children: new approach to recording suspected child abuse in patient records
  • News : The Guardian: Call for more folic acid in flour endorsed by doctors
  • News : DfE: Urgent reforms to protect children in residential care from sexual exploitation
  • News : The Guardian: How we fail children in care
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  • News : BBC: Smoking mothers' embryos 'grow more slowly'
  • News : NHS Choices: Landmark decision heralds new era in treatment for children with congenital heart disease
  • News : BBC: Child heart surgery fight goes on
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  • News : BBC: Emergency caesarean simulator helps train doctors
  • News : BMJ: NHS bill for compensation exceeds £1bn for the first time
  • News : BMJ: Taking folic acid at start of pregnancy seems to lower risk of cleft lip and palate
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 8
  • News : Diabetes UK: Call for a million people to get Type 1 aware
  • News : BBC: Pioneering tumour op on baby in the womb
  • News : The Telegraph: Psychologist: computer games hinder children from 'learning about being human'
  • News : BBC: Standing while pregnant 'may slow foetal growth'
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  • News : CDOP: National CDOP conference
  • News : BBC: Children's charities warn of rise in vulnerable
  • News : CYPN: 'Terrifying' welfare reforms will drive up care referrals, warns Munro
  • News : BBC: Coffee and cake lowers IVF success
  • News : BBC: Whooping cough: 'It was quite frightening'
  • News : DfE: More babies in care to receive a stable home more swiftly
  • News : DH: Health visitor numbers rising
  • News : BFI: Mothers survey on healthcare experiences
  • News : NHS Choices: 'Obesity vaccine' hope
  • News : BBC: Doctors 'should not fear raising child abuse alarm'
  • News : JFHC: Concerns raised over the rise in cases of drug-resistant TB and whooping cough
  • News : JFHC: We need to keep talking about obesity
  • News : BBC: Increase in young men taking higher doses of steroids
  • News : CYPN: Troubled families programme should target siblings of offenders, MPs told
  • News : DfE: Reform of the Office of Children’s Commissioner
  • News : The Lancet: Victimisation of children with disabilities
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  • News : BBC: Rise in women having babies over 40
  • News : BBC: Muslim and Jewish groups denounce German circumcision ruling
  • News : BBC: Five millionth 'test tube baby'
  • News : CEOP: A larger force to stamp out online child sexual exploitation
  • News : CYP IAPT: New children and young people's IAPT sites announced
  • News : CYPN: Young people feel unable to complain about poor health services, report finds
  • News : BBC: Obesity surgery 'seeing 1,000 patients in 18 months'
  • News : BMJ: Virgin Care to take over services for children and young people in Devon worth £132m
  • News : CYPN: Alcohol-related hospital admissions rise among most deprived young people
  • News : DH: Update on Review of Parnuts Framework Directive published
  • News : DH: Update to Green Book - chapter 18a Human papillomavirus
  • News : DWP: Government’s radical vision to transform child maintenance system
  • News : NHS Choices: TV watching tots risk turning into ‘telly tubbies'
  • News : JFHC: Baby boom places further strain on midwifery services
  • News : Maternity Action: Valuing maternity
  • News : NHS Specialised Services: Statement on children's respiratory ECMO
  • News : JFHC: Maternity cuts stop new mums from breastfeeding, analysts say
  • News : BBC: Baby heart risk for hairdressers and nail bar workers?
  • News : TAC: The very special children of 2002: trying to help the UK Prime Minister
  • News : Midwives: Maternity services 'play catch up' for decade
  • News : BMJ: Prenatal blood test for Down’s syndrome is to be introduced in Germany despite ethical and legal concerns
  • News : The Guardian: Close small maternity units and centralise care, demands leading doctor
  • News : WHO: Children with disabilities more likely to experience violence
  • News : DH: New grants to support children’s hospice and hospice at home services
  • News : UNICEF: Ambitious UK aid plan delivers strong, measurable results for the world's poorest
  • News : CYPN: Ministers ditch plans to class 17-year-olds in custody as 'children'
  • News : BBC: Peers back smoking ban for cars with children present
  • News : BBC: Severely obese children's hearts already in danger
  • News : BBC: Female genital mutilation in the UK - a hidden world
  • News : MHRA statement on new flu vaccination programme for children
  • News : RCOG: Vitamin supplementation could have a significant impact on maternal and fetal health, says new review
  • News : BBC: Britons failing to reach five-a-day fruit and veg goal
  • News : CYPN: Daycare Trust and Family and Parenting Institute to merge
  • News : BBC: F1 technology helps sick children
  • News : BBC: Whooping cough outbreak spreads to very young babies
  • News : NHS Choices: Whooping cough vaccine plans for pregnant women and teens due to ‘rocketing number of cases’
  • News : NHS Choices: Sunbeds 'killing hundreds each year'
  • News : NHS Choices: Obese children show early signs of heart disease
  • News : NHS Choices: Children to be offered annual flu vaccine
  • News : BBC: Young with eating disorders 'missing out on vital help'
  • News : HPA: Risk of infection from caesareans at nearly 10 per cent
  • News : DH: Actions set out on government commitment to health visiting
  • News : BBC: Northern Ireland children's heart service not sustainable
  • News : NICE: Commissioning Outcomes Framework (COF)
  • Website : The Guardian: teenage pregnancy sub-site
  • News : ChiMat: Engaging maternity users in the future
  • News : Guardian: What can athletes with ADHD teach us about the condition?
  • News : BMJ: Researchers call for national funding to monitor all birth defects
  • News : DfE: Radical scheme to rescue NEETs
  • News : Community Care: Does scrapping child assessment timescales put children at risk?
  • News : Community Care: Thresholds for accepting child protection referrals 'too high'
  • News : NHS Choices: Baby talk: survey claims third of baby health websites have ‘wrong information’
  • News : ChiMat: Admissions for constipation aged 0-19 years
  • News : The Guardian: New holistic approach to treat child obesity
  • News : BBC: Vulnerable children 'at risk' in new protection system
  • News : BBC: Why stillbirth remains a mystery
  • News : BMJ: Adverse events in children having surgery are common and need investigation, study concludes
  • News : MHRA: Parents advised not to use unlicensed children’s herbal medicine sold in Holland and Barrett
  • News : BBC: Website warned over MMR claims
  • News : HO: Violence against women and girls newsletters
  • News : NHS Choices: Having baby like 'being in a terror attack'
  • News : BBC: Growing children
  • News : BBC: Adoptions in England and Wales rose 6% in 2011
  • News : JFHC: Great maternity services receive parliamentary praise
  • News : CYPN: Youth custody numbers fall to lowest level since the creation of the YJB
  • News : MedlinePlus: Chemo during pregnancy doesn't seem to harm newborn
  • News : BBC: Should extremely obese children be taken into care?
  • News : BMJ: Researchers defend 20 mph speed limits despite rise in casualties
  • News : The Guardian: Sport and children in charts: how active are Britain's kids?
  • News : Midwives: Pregnancy tests available in US pubs
  • News : Midwives: National survey of early warning systems
  • Report : A child material deprivation index
  • News : BBC: Teachers criticise Cameron's Olympic school-sport remarks
  • News : CYPN: Changes to youth justice funding abandoned
  • News : DH: NQB sets out how quality will be maintained and improved in new health system
  • News : HealthDay: Smoking during pregnancy may cause asthma, wheezing in kids
  • News : NHS Choices: Cereal bars don't deserve 'healthy image'
  • News : NHS Choices: Echinacea allergy warning for children under 12
  • News : CYPN: North West region records highest number of unexplained infant deaths
  • News : BBC: Postpartum psychosis: affected parents speak out
  • News : BBC: Circumcision, the ultimate parenting dilemma
  • News : DfE: Guidance notes for the completion of Children in Need Census
  • News : CYPN: NCB calls for children to be a priority as transfer to new NHS system begins
  • News : AfC: The family you’re born with and the family you choose
  • News : BBC: New rules on school playing space criticised
  • News : NHS Choices: Study finds older mums have healthier children
  • News : JRF: Are binge drinkers really happier?
  • News : RCM: Labour complications 'double' in Scotland
  • News : CYPN: Training for children’s service staff aims to boost young deaf people’s rights
  • News : HPA: HPA advises back to school vaccination as measles cases continue to increase
  • News : NHS Choices: Measles cases in England 'almost double'
  • News : NHS Choices: Fertility clue for recurring miscarriage
  • News : BBC: Gallstone risk 'higher among obese teenagers'
  • News : CYPN: Spotlight on government maternity pledges as pregnant women report lack of support
  • News : DH: Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin – August 2012
  • News : RCM: Clamping update to be delivered
  • News : NHS Choices: Does smoking 'dope' turn you into one?
  • News : AAP: Health benefits linked to newborn circumcision
  • News : BBC: Cot death rates at all-time low, say statisticians
  • News : BMJ: Child mortality is falling but some developing regions will miss millennium targets
  • News : NHS Choices: Nut consumption in pregnancy linked to 'reduced child allergy risk'
  • News : BTA: 1 in 3 women affected by traumatic birth
  • News : RCPCH: 'Children's health needs and senior doctors' availability must match up', warns RCPCH
  • News : NIMH: Daily or severe tantrums may point to mental health issues
  • News : EurekAlert: Exposure to violence has long-term stress effects among adolescents
  • News : NICE: Innovation scorecards to highlight availability of NICE-approved drugs
  • News : NIH: Stresses of poverty may impair learning ability in young children
  • News : DH: Students starting secondary school urged to get to know their school nurse
  • News : Community Care: Legal change likely to increase social workers' looked-after child caseloads
  • News : NHS Choices: Multiple abortions 'link' to premature births
  • News : BBC: Newborn babies could get whooping cough vaccination
  • Website : CHF: Children's Heart Federation Pulse Oximetry Campaign
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 9
  • News : GMC: Child protection guidance comes into effect
  • News : Ofsted: New Early Years Foundation Stage: new registration, new inspection
  • News : NHS Choices: Frozen IVF embryos lead to 'healthier babies'
  • News : BJOG: The rate of women with pregnancy-associated cancer is on the increase but rise in older mothers not a major factor
  • News : CYPN: Fears over young offenders held in adult prisons
  • News : BBC: Surgical abortion pre-term risk
  • News : BBC: Liquitabs alert after children burned
  • News : BMJ: European court overturns preimplantation testing ban
  • News : MailOnline: As Olympic golden girl Victoria Pendleton admits self-harming... the secret pressures driving so many teenage girls to cut
  • News : Save the Children: Child poverty: it shouldn't happen here
  • News : BBC: Children 'need more teaching on cancer causes'
  • News : The Guardian: GPs unsympathetic to infertile women, study finds
  • News : RCM: 120,000 women may not be getting support they need in labour and birth
  • News : The Guardian: Families raising funds to treat children for cancer abroad
  • News : HPA: Whooping cough cases continue to increase
  • News : BBC: Crippling viral infections 'cause asthma'
  • News : NHS Choices: Fish oil can 'make children less naughty'
  • News : HPA: HPA survey reveals attitudes affecting flu vaccine uptake amongst London midwives
  • News : DH: Smokers across the country encouraged to join ‘Stoptober’
  • News : Community Care: Serious case review decision imminent in Rochdale abuse case
  • News : RCM: RCM signs agreement outside NHS
  • News : RCM: One-to-one birth centre opens door
  • News : NHS Choices: Controlled crying 'safe for babies'
  • News : BBC: Global child mortality declines
  • News : Barnardo's: Barnardo’s Scotland’s Early Years Service has positive and significant impact on young parents
  • News : CEOP: Back to school, the perfect time to talk online safety
  • News : MBRRACE-UK: September 2012 newsletter
  • News : DH: New statutory arrangements for Healthy Start vitamins
  • News : UNICEF: Inaugural Forum on the Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities puts children with disabilities in the forefront
  • News : netdoctor: Parents 'not using emollients correctly' to manage eczema
  • News : NMC: Home births: Who decides they are safe?
  • News : DPM: New definition of domestic violence and abuse to include 16 and 17 year olds
  • News : BBC: Women giving birth need 24-hour access to specialists
  • News : Tommy's: Tommy's wins BMA patient information award
  • News : 4Children: Broader definition of domestic violence fails to go far enough
  • News : The Guardian: Campaigners launch legal action to try to save Leeds children's heart unit
  • News : The Independent: Children in peril as women are jailed in record numbers
  • News : BBC: Child deaths: Unicef says global mortality rates fall
  • News : BBC: Newcastle University engineers develop baby scanner
  • News : Children's Commissioner: School exclusions inquiry - year 2
  • News : BBC: 'Harmless skin virus' fights acne
  • News : DfE: Cash boost for disadvantaged school children
  • News : CYPN: Kent council plan to detain unaccompanied children branded 'illegal and immoral'
  • News : BBC: Child obesity: Why do parents let their kids get fat?
  • News : BFI: Breastfeeding and relationship building: a new approach
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  • News : NHS Choices: Childhood obesity may impact on heart health in later life
  • News : DH: Information about whooping cough vaccination programme for pregnant women
  • News : BBC: Pregnancy: is it possible not to know?
  • News : BBC: Scottish IVF services get £12m to cut waiting times
  • News : CYPN: Two-year-old entitlement to be funded by cut to early intervention grant
  • News : The Guardian: Report finds funding for maternal and child health has stalled
  • News : NHS Choices: Should 'three-parent IVF' be allowed?
  • News : The Guardian: Uterus transplants from mother to daughter carried out in medical first
  • News : Midwives: 'Maternity improves in Morecambe'
  • News : BBC: New Edinburgh Sick Children's building gets go ahead
  • News : CYPN: School pupils reveal negative views on mental illness
  • News : Adoption UK: The care inquiry
  • News : NHS Choices: Could less sleep increase teen diabetes risk?
  • News : NHS Choices: Drug 'breakthrough' for children with premature ageing disease progeria
  • News : CYPN: Sector leaders call on government to rethink Early Intervention Grant cut
  • News : Community Care: Leading charities launch inquiry into care system
  • News : Community Care: Social workers unlikely to act quickly on neglect cases
  • News : BBC: Cambridge University students get drink and dress advice
  • News : The Guardian: Canadian scheme aims to cut child deaths and enhance cognitive growth
  • News : BBC: US doctors say trampolines are a danger to kids
  • News : NICE: NICE launches free British National Formulary for Children app for the NHS in England
  • News : NHS Choices: Non-melanoma skin cancer sunbed risk
  • News : BBC: '50-hour genome' test for babies with genetic diseases
  • News : DH: Resources to support the 2012 European Antibiotic Awareness Day in England
  • News : NCB: Council for Disabled Children Director to sit on new Healthwatch England committee
  • News : CDC: World Heart Day 2012: women and children at risk
  • News : The Telegraph: Global nappy shortage fears after factory explosion
  • News : The Telegraph: Forcing children to exercise more does not make them thinner: researchers
  • News : CYPN: Labour conference: Burnham calls on local areas to prioritise mental health in schools
  • News : Community Care: Talking therapies programme will 'rewire' children's mental health services
  • News : Scottish Government: National parenting strategy launched
  • News : Community Care: Oxford fostering centre to create evidence base
  • News : NHS Choices: High blood pressure in pregnancy 'can lower' child’s IQ
  • News : NHS Choices: Whooping cough vaccine for pregnant women
  • News : AMR: Top London researchers awarded grants to help sick babies and children
  • News : Midwives: Figures show drop in NHS midwives
  • News : BBC: Rehab for drug addict mums - and kids
  • News : BBC: Food banks increase as Wales incomes fall £80 per month
  • News : BBC: Is the teen rebel a dying breed?
  • News : NHS Choices: New fertility formula 'predicts pregnancy' chances
  • News : MailOnline: The agony of PRE-NATAL depression: it strikes one in eight pregnant women, but many of us don’t even know it exists
  • News : CYPN: England urged to follow Scotland's lead in extending parenting support
  • News : CYPN: Children's commissioner for Wales attacks youth service cuts
  • News : DH: Next generation nursing and midwifery to free up more time for patients
  • News : Community Care: Fury over EastEnders' 'misleading' social work storyline
  • News : BBC: Limit children's screen time, expert urges
  • News : BBC: NHS 'must learn lessons' from boy's death
  • News : CYPN: Conservative conference: Tact calls for care leavers to be given priority pass for support
  • News : Eyes on Evidence October 2012
  • News : JFHC: Mothers unite globally in grief
  • News : BBC: Hospital admissions for eating disorders up by 16%
  • News : RCPCH: New e-portal set to transform knowledge, skills and attitudes towards child mental health
  • News : CYPN: Timpson pledges to champion youth voice
  • News : The Telegraph: Teenage mums: the real story
  • News : BBC: Childhood obesity: 10 of your stories
  • Media : BBC Radio 4: 'Why I oppose first cousin marriage'
  • News : The Guardian: Pregnant women warned not to eat game killed with lead shot
  • News : BBC: Classical CD for newborns to inspire a love of music
  • News : The Telegraph: Parents to share maternity leave under new plans
  • News : BBC: Arthritis can affect toddlers too, says mother of two-year-old
  • News : The Telegraph: One in ten babies born under abortion limit survives
  • News : The Telegraph: Mother's ruin: mums determine their children's drinking habits
  • News : CYPN: Two thirds of vulnerable families 'struggling more than a year ago'
  • News : BBC: Baby dies in Southmead Hospital pseudomonas outbreak
  • News : BBC: Hair straighteners burn children
  • News : CYPN: Free entitlement ‘should be linked to parenting plans’
  • News : BMJ: Judge upholds doctors’ care plan for profoundly damaged 3 year old boy against wishes of birth mother
  • News : BBC: Pre-exam anxiety 'can boost grades'
  • News : NIHR: Study to assess most effective hearing screening programme for young children
  • News : NiP: Smoking in cars harms kids even when windows are open
  • News : NHS Choices: HPV jab and teen promiscuity: 'no link'
  • News : Community Care: How the latest research into child trafficking in the UK should inform social work practice
  • News : CYPN: Number of child trafficking victims at least double official figures, report warns
  • News : BBC: Child heart death prompts review
  • News : BBC: Rise in child throat infections treated in hospital, study finds
  • News : Community Care: Child protection services in Birmingham rated 'inadequate'
  • News : BBC: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt orders child heart review
  • News : NHS Choices: Sharp rise in children’s throat infections – is tonsillitis to blame?
  • News : NHS Choices: Childhood brain injury 'link' to criminality
  • News : SEN: Tanni launches healthy kids project
  • News : NCB: Join the play 'army' and help children have more fun outdoors this half-term
  • News : Community Care: Legal challenge fails to halt Virgin's children's services takeover
  • News : AfC: Organisational culture is key to protecting vulnerable children and young people from abuse
  • News : NHS Choices: Chips and burnt toast 'linked' to low birth weight
  • News : CYPN: Medics join effort to tackle serious youth violence
  • News : BBC: Wolverhampton New Cross payout £6m to injured boy
  • News : BBC: Nurse admits giving baby fatal saline dose at QMC
  • News : BBC: Parents' joy at twins' separation
  • News : The Telegraph: Parents 'shun bedtime reading' in favour of TV
  • News : AFC: Prison custody fatally flawed for children and young people
  • News : CDC: Launch of new transition research project
  • News : BBC: Screening test for stuttering 'closer'
  • News : BBC: Anger management video game monitors child's heart rate
  • News : BBC: Seaweed therapy used to save mother and baby
  • News : DfE: Raising our ambitions for children in care
  • News : JFHC: Dietitians endorse front of pack food labelling
  • News : JFHC: Former minister calls for better child media safeguards
  • News : UCL: Europe’s first research centre to battle birth defects
  • News : Barnardo's: Barnardo’s launches Charter for Care Leavers
  • News : CEOP: Actress teams up with the police service to raise awareness of child sexual exploitation
  • News : DH: Upcoming surveys to measure prevalence and severity of dental decay in three year olds
  • News : AFC: Raise the leaving age to support vulnerable children in care
  • News : AFC: Leading children’s charities launch new partnership approach for Dundee
  • News : The Children's Society: MPs and peers launch inquiry into asylum support's effect on children
  • Report : CYPN: Early Intervention Grant will increase, insists Gove
  • News : CYPN: Hunt outlines priorities for children's health
  • News : NHS Choices: Three-parent IVF trialled
  • News : JFHC: Leading child medic launches Vit D drive
  • News : CYPN: Nacro urges preventative work to divert young people from gangs
  • News : CLIC Sargent: New magazine for children with cancer
  • Media : SEN: New animations to empower deaf young people
  • Report : The Guardian: Bullying most common problem for young children, says ChildLine
  • News : HPA: Whooping cough outbreak continues
  • News : FPI: Parents Week 2012 - our survey of time-pressured parents
  • News : NiP: Oral contraceptives prove popular among young teens
  • News : DH: Children, Families and Maternity bulletin – October 2012
  • News : BMJ: Severe obesity doubles risk of preterm delivery, study shows
  • News : MoJ: Improving the protection of children across borders
  • News : EHI: E-Preginfo launched from Midlands trials
  • News : ISCI newsletter November 2012
  • News : Community Care: A new model for family court social work?
  • News : Community Care: Child protection video game could herald a new era of social work training
  • News : RCM: Helping homeless pregnant women
  • News : Community Care: Munro backs separate chief social workers for children and adults
  • News : NHS Choices: More teens seek help for cannabis use
  • News : The Telegraph: Antidepressants 'are the only option for some women'
  • News : The Telegraph: Teenagers in care facing 'cliff-edge', warns minister
  • News : BBC: Asbestos: call for routine tests after Cwmcarn closure
  • News : Midwives: Helping homeless pregnant women
  • News : BBC: Mother admits killing her two babies
  • News : The IC: Schools urged to take part in long-running national survey as it hits 30th birthday
  • News : EHI: Youth mental health app trialled
  • News : BBC: Stem cell op may 'restore sperm'
  • News : DH: Healthy living and social care theme launched as part of Red Tape Challenge
  • News : The Guardian: Teachers increasingly bear the burden of supporting vulnerable children
  • News : NHS Choices: Early-onset Alzheimer's gene explored in teens
  • News : NHS Confed: New coalition formed to help deliver the right care in the right place
  • News : DH: Funding allocations announced for new children’s hospice 2012/13 grant
  • News : The Telegraph: Baby signing classes 'fail to boost toddlers' language skills'
  • News : Community Care: Former Rochdale chief blames social workers for abuse failings
  • News : Community Care: MPs back Munro early intervention duty
  • News : AFC: UK children will go hungry this Christmas
  • News : Community Care: Council brings in private sector to lead children's services
  • News : CYPN: Government to appoint separate chief social workers for children's and adult services
  • News : CYPN: School building programme 'risks excluding disabled pupils'
  • News : The Telegraph: ‘Nearly half of British children can’t swim – and it’s their parents' fault’
  • Report : Bliss: Look at me booklet now available
  • News : The Telegraph: Baby born alive 'wrongly' recorded as stillborn
  • News : ESRC: Researchers to debate the call for sexual abstinence education in schools
  • News : CYPN: LGA to support Healthwatch work with children and young people
  • News : CYPN: Suicide prevention study launched
  • News : DfE: Gove calls for more adopters to help find homes for more than 4,200 children ready for adoption
  • News : Bliss: Anna Marie supports World Prematurity Day
  • News : The Telegraph: Two thirds of parents with disabled children turn down promotion
  • News : NHS Choices: How mum's menopause can affect your fertility
  • News : BBC: 'Focus on abuse' amid BBC crisis, urges MP
  • News : DH: Plans set out to prepare NHS for winter
  • News : CYPN: Troubled families scheme 'must extend beyond 2015'
  • News : DH: New vaccine to help protect babies against rotavirus
  • News : Marie Stopes International: Marie Stopes Northern Ireland to open Belfast centre
  • News : NHS Choices: Rotavirus vaccine to be introduced for babies
  • News : NHS Choices: Pregnant women 'take two months sick leave'
  • News : Barnardo's: Children’s charity help young people onto career ladder
  • News : DH: £25 million to improve maternity wards and more help for mums and babies
  • News : Barnardo's: Barnardo’s Scotland secures funding to support local families
  • News : Mindroom: Survey for parents: choosing a school for a disabled child
  • News : The Australian: Parents use test kits to screen kids for drugs
  • News : The Telegraph: What does it take to adopt a child in Britain?
  • News : PoliticsHome: Cameron must act to stop child sex abuse
  • News : NCB: NCB to undertake major new research into outcomes of disabled children and young people
  • News : BIS: Flexible parental leave to revolutionise parents’ lives at work and home
  • News : AFC: National Adoption Week - Don’t rule them out
  • News : DH: NHS Mandate published
  • News : NHS Choices: Baby paracetamol: asthma risk not proven
  • News : NHS Choices: Smacking link to adult cancers improbable
  • News : AAA: Finished at School supporters’ call on apprenticeships is heard
  • News : BBC: Parents 'unaware of type 1 diabetes symptoms'
  • News : BBC: Child cancer drug 'postcode lottery' revealed
  • News : RCM: Baby boom restarts as maternity cutbacks bite
  • News : NHS Screening Programmes: FASP Autumn 2012 progress update newsletter
  • News : FI: Parenting leave reforms a ‘lost opportunity’ to modernise, FI warns
  • News : DfE: Early Intervention Foundation preferred bidder announced
  • News : Community Care: Michael Gove launches damning attack on child protection system
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  • News : The Telegraph: Using Facebook to protect your child from bullying online
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  • News : BMJ: Doctors must put needs of child before relationship with parents, judge rules
  • News : Beat: 67% increase in bullying leading to eating disorder
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  • News : ERIC: Coming soon The ERIC Nurse
  • News : NHS Choices: 'Weedy' teen boys have 'higher risk of early death'
  • News : CAF: Contact a Family response to Work and Pensions Select Committee report on Universal Credit implementation
  • News : BBC: Belfast breakthrough offers hope to infertile couples
  • News : DfE: The failure of child protection and the need for a fresh start
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  • News : CRIN: Police treatment of 17-year-old suspects challenged in high court
  • News : BMJ: Judicial review of decision to close children’s heart surgery in Leeds is to go ahead despite plea to postpone it
  • News : BBC: Acne drug Roaccutane 'overused' says UK dermatologist
  • News : UCL: EU awards grant to develop new drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • News : BBC: Children held in police cells under Mental Health Act
  • News : Anti-Bullying Alliance: Kids' dreams stifled by bullying
  • News : DfE: Top providers urged to get ready for two year old offer
  • News : NHS Choices: Car exhaust fumes 'link' to autism
  • News : UCL: New research centre for teenagers with arthritis
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  • News : The Guardian: Watchdog criticises Essex hospital over 'unacceptable' children's care
  • News : BBC: School introduces 'sleep workshops' to help parents
  • News : NHS Choices: 'Designer vagina' ops for kids on the NHS?
  • News : The Guardian: CPS to crack down on female genital mutilation
  • News : BBC: Childhood obesity 'can be predicted by check at birth'
  • News : The IC: More mums are breastfeeding their infants for longer, new figures show
  • News : BBC: Further big drop in new HIV infections among children
  • News : BBC: Irish abortion inquiry: Health watchdog examines Savita death
  • News : The Guardian: Are young people being given the right information on contraception?
  • News : CS: The Poverty Trap
  • News : DfE: Working smarter to improve child protection
  • News : The Independent: Mentally ill children locked up by police
  • News : The Guardian: Adoption process is being rushed by councils, say judges
  • News : Howard League: Police arrest a child every two and a half minutes
  • News : NHS Choices: Childhood trauma and genes linked to depression
  • News : NHS Choices: Tool to predict babies likely to become obese
  • News : NCB: New resources for young people living with HIV
  • News : AHA: Social media may help fight childhood obesity
  • News : RCN: Schoolchildren with health needs ‘at risk’
  • News : The Telegraph: Changes in adoption guidelines threaten military families
  • News : BBC: Slight fall for nurse and midwife posts in Scotland
  • News : The Telegraph: Quarter of stillbirths could be avoided
  • News : BBC: Manchester baby boy 'bled to death after circumcision'
  • News : The Telegraph: School should teach pupils about dangers of online porn, says Liz Truss
  • News : NiP: Health visiting independent charity launched
  • News : CYPN: Adult wards 'traumatise' young people with life-limiting conditions
  • News : The Guardian: Student suicides rise during recession years
  • News : BBC: Bourn Hall Clinic celebrates its 1000th NHS baby
  • News : DfE: Councils must drive out delays in adoptions
  • News : HPA: Whooping cough cases continue to increase
  • News : DH: Top nurses announce new strategy to build culture of compassionate care across the NHS
  • News : HSCIC: MMR vaccine - coverage for young children by age two at highest level in 14 years
  • News : Community Care: Councils criticise second set of 'misleading' adoption scorecards
  • News : Friends and Family Test: Mandate update
  • News : NHS Choices: Premature birth survival rates on the rise
  • News : BBC: Self-harm calls to ChildLine show biggest increase
  • News : THE: Student suicides rise along with debt burdens
  • News : Home Office: Violence against women and girls (VAWG) newsletter - winter edition 2012
  • News : ASA: ASA adjudication on Pfizer Ltd
  • News : HSCIC: NHS maternity: hospital deliveries to teen mums fall by a fifth in five years
  • News : HSCIC: Self harm: hospital admission rate per 100,000 population in North East almost triple the rate in London
  • News : DH: Financial arrangements for the temporary pertussis vaccination programme
  • News : DfE: Information about children, school and education (ICES) Bulletin No. 61 (7 December 2012)
  • News : BBC: Severe morning sickness can be 'traumatic'
  • News : The Telegraph: Couple sue for IVF in landmark 'age discrimination' case
  • News : EHI: E-portal for youth mental health
  • News : Drinkaware: Drinkaware reveals link between parents’ drinking and their kids’ relationship with alcohol
  • News : BBC: Royal pregnancy: 'I was sick like pregnant Kate'
  • News : BBC: Is Olympics behind expected baby boom?
  • News : NHS Choices: Childless couples who wanted kids 'die younger'
  • News : BBC: Fertility treatment 'asthma link'
  • News : BBC: Pioneering surgery repairs girl's spine with leg bone
  • News : BBC: Court delays tumour boy hearing
  • News : YoungMinds: Survey reveals worrying state of CAMHS
  • News : NCB: New campaign aims to show that sex education matters
  • News : BBC: Whooping cough jab uptake hailed by health officials
  • News : NCB: Key working training
  • News : CAF: Contact a Family’s response to final detail of Universal Credit
  • News : BBC: Magnetic tongue stud warning
  • Report : BBC: Nearly 4,000 NI children in adult hospital wards over a year
  • News : BBC: Sugar 'comforts babies during immunisations'
  • News : NHS Evidence: Eyes on Evidence Issue 44 – December 2012
  • News : NOO: New NCMP 2011/12 data and resources
  • News : Cafcass: Care application levels remain high
  • News : BBC: Surgeons warn many cleft palate cases missed at birth
  • News : NHS Change Day - 13 March 2013: Do something better together
  • News : AYPH: Be Healthy newsletter
  • News : BBC: Obesity rates fall in Philadelphia
  • News : Community Care: Seven brilliant guides to help social workers respond to child sexual exploitation
  • News : NHS Choices: One primary school child in three is 'too fat'
  • News : BBC: Cheap vitamin D 'would boost health'
  • News : University of Glasgow: Monday blues explain why patients miss hospital and GP appointments
  • News : Community Care: Three-quarters of CAMHS staff see budgets slashed as morale plummets
  • News : RCPCH: Vitamin D campaign
  • News : GI: Reproductive health-focused facilities are better able to provide long-acting reversible contraceptive services to younger clients than are primary care facilities
  • News : RCN: Health visiting on the road
  • News : BBC: Shortage of critical care paediatric beds, doctors warn
  • News : Sport England: Sport England and Sainsbury's launch £1 million inclusive sports programme
  • News : NICE: NHS should offer early pregnancy services seven days a week
  • News : DfE: Help for children in care to achieve better school results
  • News : NHS Choices: Secondhand smoke linked to childhood meningitis
  • News : Barnardo's: New appointments to the social mobility and child poverty commission
  • News : JRF: Family Food Survey reveals poorest struggling to afford their 5 a day
  • News : BBC: Care system fails young offenders - report
  • News : BBC: NSPCC campaign reminds people abuse is not just in the past
  • News : DH: Vaccine Update - December 2012
  • News : nef: Youth services in a climate of austerity
  • News : UR: Movers and Shakers club for disabled teens in Surrey
  • News : JFHC: Living streets devise route to reduce childhood obesity
  • News : BBC: Royal baby: what are the odds of twins?
  • News : The Telegraph: Can teen mums be feminists?
  • News : BBC: Shisha tobacco sold to under-18s, BBC X-Ray investigation finds
  • News : CYPN: Committee urges stronger powers for children’s commissioner
  • News : NHS Choices: Parents 'need to drink less' in front of their kids
  • News : CYPN: Young people prefer online services to tackle self-harm
  • News : C4EO: Highlighting research December 2012
  • News : The Guardian: The mothers fighting back against birth intervention
  • News : BBC: Nurse guilty of killing baby in botched circumcision
  • News : The Guardian: Blackpool to give free breakfasts to all primary school pupils
  • News : Community Care: Social workers should consider ethnicity in adoption, say peers
  • News : BBC: MPs call for compulsory relationship education
  • News : HQIP: Child Health Reviews-UK case notification
  • News : Barnardo's: Foster children fend for themselves after 18th birthday
  • News : Community Care: More care cuts in store as council budgets face 1.7% fall next year
  • News : The Guardian: Poland's 'baby hatches' leave vulnerable mothers exposed
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  • Report : JRF: 60% of young people are ‘often or sometimes lonely’
  • News : UKJPR: Situating criminal justice: inequality, poverty and children
  • News : Community Care: 'We call it 'broken toy syndrome': Christmas on the social care frontline
  • News : NHS Choices: Family meals 'help kids get their five-a-day'
  • News : The Telegraph: Facebook criticised for targeting pregnant women with advertising
  • News : The Telegraph: Mind the gap: how teen mums are excluded by universal social services
  • News : DH: Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum final event
  • News : The Guardian: David Cameron plans internet filter prompts to protect children from porn
  • News : The Guardian: School is not the only place for sex and relationship guidance
  • News : The Guardian: School sports policy launch delayed by dispute between Gove and Hunt
  • News : NHS Choices: A week's health news in numbers
  • News : CAF: Do you want to find accurate information on mental health issues?
  • News : AFC: Christmas celebrations for young care leavers
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  • News : CYPN: Councils challenged to improve support for troubled families
  • News : HPA: Antiviral drugs for seasonal flu approved as HPA urges at-risk groups to get vaccinated
  • News : HPA: Whooping cough cases remain high
  • News : PW: What kind of world do you want to live in? UNICEF UK wants to hear what you think!
  • News : DH: New child abuse alert system for hospitals announced
  • News : HPA: Flu activity continuing to increase
  • News : DfE: New drive to help children find adoptive families
  • News : The Telegraph: Biz Idol: How Dr Kate Hersov uses superheroes to tell children about health problems
  • News : The Telegraph: The 10 pros and cons of being a young mother
  • News : DH: Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin – December 2012
  • News : The Observer: New mothers will rate midwives and doctors on childbirth care
  • News : BBC: 'Arthritis was so painful I couldn't sit my exams'
  • News : BMJ: Proposed system to detect child abuse could deter parents from seeking treatment, pressure group says
  • News : BMJ: Judges are baffled by baby’s painless skull fractures
  • News : BBC: UK fifth highest in world for child type 1 diabetes
  • News : Home Office: New support to tackle gang and youth violence
  • News : Sense: Why does a deafblind child need an intervenor?
  • News : BBC: Pregnancy advice 'scaremongering'
  • News : Defra: Advice to pregnant women during lambing season
  • News : RCPCH: Epilepsy12 National Audit e-Newsletter, December 2011
  • News : NICE: Evidence summary on the unlicensed and off-label use of melatonin to treat sleep disorders in children and young people with ADHD
  • News : CYPN: Pledge to retain visibility of early intervention spending is 'tiny concession'
  • News : NHS Choices: Dubious claims that crying babies 'self-soothe'
  • News : BBC: Scottish parliament to report on teenage pregnancy
  • News : CYPN: Poor provision for deaf children is forcing families to move
  • News : The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and partners to provide NICE Collaborating Centre for Social Care
  • News : The Telegraph: Girls need more protection from greedy corporate world
  • News : BBC: Breakfasts for Blackpool primary school pupils
  • News : NHS Choices: Is children's asthma made worse by inhalers?
  • News : NHS Choices: Pollen in pregnancy could be linked to infant asthma
  • News : BBC: Spit test 'improves' asthma care
  • Report : Community Care: 'Benefit cuts will not see more children taken into care; poverty does not equal neglect'
  • News : LHP: HNA refresh of data - December 2012
  • News : NHS Choices: Jabs 'more upsetting' for babies of first-time mums
  • News : CYPN: Fresh review of YJB announced
  • News : 4Children: Families could struggle to heat their homes as over 1 in 3 adults most fear not being able to pay energy bills in 2013
  • News : DH: £5.45 billion budget for local public health services announced
  • News : The Guardian: IVF should use only single embryos, report recommends
  • News : The Guardian: Childhood obesity: Jeremy Hunt threatens food industry with legislation
  • News : BBC: Linda Geddes: Some pregnancy advice is 'absurd' (audio)
  • News : King's College London: Research reveals why some teenagers more prone to binge drinking
  • News : BBC: Delay pregnancy after obesity surgery, women warned
  • News : Cafcass: Care application levels remain up on last year
  • Report : Community Care: Preparation for adopters should place more emphasis on parenting skills, says research
  • News : BBC: Exercise in pregnancy study: Swansea University wants mums-to-be
  • News : NHS Choices: Wrong fat in pregnancy diet 'may make kids fatter'
  • News : CYPN: Children’s health services at risk despite funding increase, warn professionals
  • News : BBC: Mum's testing affects HPV jab uptake, says survey
  • News : Barnardo's: Shock at 84% rise in sexually exploited children reporting having been trafficked
  • News : AFC: Innovative service launches in Derby to keep young people out of care
  • Report : Community Care: ‘Like a computer virus, low self-esteem spreads silently, corrupting and wreaking havoc’
  • News : NIH Research Matters: Therapy shows promise for peanut allergy
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 11
  • News : BBC: Calls for diabulimia to be recognised, says doctor
  • News : NHS Choices: Fast-food 'link' to child asthma and eczema
  • News : Ofsted: A focus on driving improvement; a single national inspection of Cafcass performance
  • News : Community Care: Local authorities planning to increase inter-agency adoption fee
  • News : CYPN: Early intervention funding cut by further £49m
  • News : CYPN: Government admits placing young offenders in adult jails
  • News : BBC: Ex-minister Tim Loughton says children's agenda sidelined
  • News : Coram: New adoption information line launches
  • News : NHS Choices: IVF pregnancies 'increase blood clot risk' in mothers
  • News : LDT: Paralympic legacy must not be lost
  • News : CYPN: Mayor launches free school breakfasts for London children
  • News : BBC: Australia faces shortage of baby formula amid Chinese demand
  • News : The Guardian: Premature birth stunts brain growth
  • News : BBC: 'My child's massive stroke, aged 11'
  • News : The Guardian: Boy left brain damaged at birth wins £7.1m compensation
  • News : BBC: Learning difficulties woman gets pregnancy choice - court
  • News : BBC: Booming birth rate 'a strain on NHS midwifery services'
  • News : BBC: Childhood asthma 'admissions down' after smoking ban
  • News : BBC: Long-term ventilation support
  • News : Community Care: Nearly 20% of children who sexually harm face vigilante action
  • Report : Community Care: 'You have to be able to see the child, rather than the behaviour': helping children who sexually harm
  • News : Baby Friendly Initiative: 2012 Conference presentations now available
  • News : CYPN: Children ‘sold down the river’ by poor PE support
  • News : The Telegraph: Giving birth and child’s health are women’s greatest fears before starting a family
  • News : BBC: Wales' top doctor proposes fast food ban near schools
  • News : BB: Best Beginnings' mobile apps pilot in Southwark and Lambeth
  • News : CAF: Housing benefit debates will shine light on ‘discriminatory’ rule due to affect families with disabled children
  • News : E-HI: Wirral adds Cerner foetal monitor to EPR
  • News : RCN: Health visitor roadshows to showcase the profession
  • News : Tommy's: ‘Having a healthy pregnancy’ guide available for free in Asda pharmacies across the UK from Monday 21st January
  • News : The Telegraph: Prymface on Pramface: the one teen parenting TV programme to watch
  • News : DfE: Adoption reform programme seminars
  • News : DH: Sugar and calories reduced in soft drinks
  • News : BBC: Diane Abbott: British culture 'increasingly pornified'
  • News : BMJ: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be extended to more than 35 minutes for children, study shows
  • News : Community Care: Social workers and students to be trained on human trafficking
  • News : NHS Choices: New meningitis B vaccine approved for UK use
  • News : NAS: Your chance to shape services for children with autism in Buckinghamshire
  • News : BBC: Poorer children more likely to be obese
  • News : RCOG: Statement on the long-term effects on child IQ of epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy
  • News : UNICEF: Investment in children - the best buy in global health
  • News : DH: Advice on preparation of formula milks restated
  • News : NICE: Green light to two treatments for lung infection in adults and children over six with cystic fibrosis
  • News : DH: Hospitals share in funding to improve birthing environments
  • News : RCM: Midwives challenge plans for maternity services in south east London
  • News : HPA: 2,147 children help the HPA to set a new Guinness World Record
  • News : LTD: iPad app to assist in child assessment
  • News : JFHC: Brit toddlers are fussiest eaters
  • News : JRF: Most obese people are not poor
  • News : DfE: Attracting more adopters – last chance for local authorities
  • News : ERIC: Launch of regional and local impact projects
  • News : BBC: Therapy 'could cut teen drinking', researchers say
  • News : BBC: New hope for Tourette's Syndrome patients
  • News : RCM: Strategy needed for unplanned pregnancies
  • News : BBC: App to help women choose where to give birth created
  • News : Children's Society: The government needs to reform the anti-social behaviour agenda for young people
  • News : Time to Change: Frank and Rachel Bruno talk about mental health
  • News : The Telegraph: Parents should not be afraid to snoop on their children, childhood guru claims
  • News : Tommy's: 'Having a healthy pregnancy' guide available for free in Asda pharmacies across the UK from Monday 21st January
  • News : CYPN: Speech and language services face 'bleak' future
  • News : 4Children: New campaign calls for families to be placed at the heart of the 2013 comprehensive spending review
  • News : Samaritans: Parliamentarians call for compulsory local suicide prevention strategies
  • News : MHF: Young people and violence
  • News : CYPN: Sector raises 'huge concerns' over government approach to youth policy
  • News : CYPN: Number of children's centres falls by more than 400
  • News : 4Children: 4Children response to government’s report – more great childcare
  • News : BBC: North East measles outbreak 'serious'
  • News : NHS Choices: Claims whistling can potty train babies 'far-fetched'
  • News : CYPN: Councils slash youth services spending by a quarter
  • News : NHS CB: Learning sites will build partnerships between local health and social care commissioners and charity, community and social enterprise sector
  • News : FPI: Family Policy Digest January 2013
  • News : AC: NHS data accuracy is getting better, but there is still room for improvement
  • News : BBC: 'Induce older mums early to cut stillbirth risk'
  • News : The Telegraph: Benefits cuts are harming teen parent strivers – not the skivers
  • News : The Guardian: Why sex education matters
  • News : BBC: Folic acid 'cancer risk' fears played down by study
  • News : The Telegraph: Local maternity wards top list of women’s priorities when giving birth
  • News : CYPN: Professionals to receive training to spot child trafficking
  • News : The Guardian: Light in the womb controls eye development
  • News : The Telegraph: Smacking breaches international law, charity claims
  • News : UKNSC: New Screening Incidents eLearning module launched
  • News : HPA: Cases of whooping cough decline after record numbers in 2012
  • News : BBC: Ceop warns over 'alarming new trend' in online sex abuse
  • News : BBC: Growth in mothers aged over 40 in Wales (video)
  • News : BBC: Older fathers: what's behind the trend?
  • News : BBC: 'Angry young men' lack optimism
  • News : NHS Choices: Sharp decline in UK child epilepsy rates
  • News : NHS Choices: Charity calls for boys to get HPV jab
  • News : DH: Fertility and tissue regulators to be reviewed following consultation
  • News : DH: Response to consultation on front of pack nutrition labelling
  • News : Sport England: Community Sport Activation Fund
  • News : BLF: Fulfilling lives: a Better Start
  • News : 4Children: Fair4Families
  • News : ESRC: Finding out how today's teens tick
  • News : CEOP: Guilty or not guilty – young people decide
  • News : The Guardian: Fears over school meal standards as children's food charity loses funding
  • News : DfE: Parents to have more choice of high quality childcare
  • News : BBC: IVF delays due to NHS-only policy, fertility expert claims
  • News : BBC: Traffic fumes linked to lower birth weight
  • News : The Guardian: Youth justice system is 'failing vulnerable young offenders'
  • News : DfE: Vulnerable children and the Bill
  • News : The Guardian: Were James Bulger's killers too young to stand trial?
  • News : The Guardian: Teachers and social workers 'miss chances to stop sex offending in boys'
  • News : CYPN: Talking therapy drive ‘threatens long-term mental health treatment’
  • News : BBC: Whooping cough cases 'falling'
  • News : The Guardian: Inquiry into abortion law on disabled babies
  • News : RCM: Call the Midwife could show way to reverse drop in women giving birth at home
  • News : NHS Choices: Obesity may cause low vitamin D levels
  • News : HO: Crime Minister speaks out against female genital mutilation
  • News : UoW: £1 million research into children who sleep rough
  • News : Action for Happiness: Developing good character matters more than passing exams
  • News : Time to Change: Children and young people’s programme is coming to Kent
  • News : MoJ: Reducing delays in family courts
  • News : BBC: Twin born with 'orange-sized' tumour
  • News : BBC: Sperm donors can seek access to kids
  • News : BBC: Unhappy childhood linked to heart risk in later life
  • News : BBC: Midwife 'role' as NHS targets female genital mutilation
  • News : BBC: Self-harm: ChildLine reports calls relating to five-year-olds
  • News : BBC: Young and candid abortion talk (video)
  • News : Barnardo's: Barnardo's Scotland launches New Year fostering and adoption campaign
  • News : DH: DH website to move to GOV.UK in March 2013
  • News : Beat: How to support the person you know
  • News : Beat: Everybody knows somebody - eating disorders are more common than you think
  • News : 4Children: Man up and have it all
  • News : NHS Choices: Caesarean birth link to asthma lacks proof
  • News : Tommy's: Unique premature birth clinic wins top NHS prize for reducing premature birth
  • News : The Guardian: What health professionals should know about eating disorders
  • News : NHS Choices: Sperm count link to exercise still uncertain
  • News : The Guardian: Government cancels survey on nutritional content of school meals
  • News : The Telegraph: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Aikens unite to fight obesity and malnutrition in Britain
  • News : DfE: Major reforms to support children and families
  • News : CYPN: PCCs to form early intervention group to reduce youth offending
  • News : DH: NHS Friends and Family Test: guidance on scoring and presenting results published
  • News : DH: Local Government Association's National Child Sexual Exploitation conference
  • News : NHS Choices: Study finds middle class kids more likely to be fat
  • News : Community Care: Social work team praised by Ofsted targeted in council cost-cutting drive
  • News : CYPN: Academies set to run secure colleges
  • News : BBC: Babies boom by a fifth in a decade - ONS
  • News : Action for Children: Ask your MP to update the law on child neglect
  • News : BBC: Maternity staff numbers warning from public accounts committee
  • News : BBC: Child hospital stays 'keep rising'
  • News : BBC: Doctors 'miss' underweight children, UCL study suggests
  • News : HPA: Measles at highest level for 18 years
  • News : BBC: Child poverty 'should be tackled not measured'
  • News : Home Office: This is Abuse - new advert launched
  • News : The Guardian: Formula milk firms accused of targeting mothers and health workers with gifts
  • News : NHS Choices: Smoking bans may help cut premature births
  • News : The Guardian: Horsemeat found in school and hospital meals
  • News : The Telegraph: Are test-tube babies at greater health risk?
  • News : BBC: High Court legal bid to save Leeds child heart surgery
  • News : The Observer: Breast is best – isn't it? Debate rages over the effect on mother and child
  • Report : CYPN: NCB advocates cash incentives for families to improve child health
  • News : BBC: The children facing a lifetime of surgery
  • News : BBC: Eating disorders: the trauma of getting our anorexic daughter to eat
  • News : ONS: Support from schools ‘vital’ to success of Children’s Dental Health Survey 2013
  • Report : NIHR: New understanding of craniosynostosis will help families and treatment centres
  • News : NHS Evidence: Eyes on Evidence February 2013
  • News : DH: NHS information service for parents reaches 100,000 signups
  • News : RCOG: New app launched to help treat babies with neonatal jaundice
  • News : NHS Choices: Could being kept in the dark cure lazy eye?
  • News : CYPN: MP backs youth work training to tackle eating disorders
  • News : NHS Choices: 'Fizzy drink tax' to stop UK being 'fat man of Europe'
  • News : CYPN: Child protection guidance for health professionals set for reform
  • News : The Guardian: Illegal use of B&Bs to house homeless soars by 800%
  • News : Community Care: 'Martin Narey is right, contact can be 'frightening and destabilising' for adopted children'
  • News : NHS CB: Patient-led assessments of the care environment (PLACE)
  • News : Community Care: Legal challenge risk for councils after youth remand changes
  • News : DH: New national pledge to improve children’s health and reduce child deaths
  • News : BBC: Breastfeeding 'power hour' could save lives (video)
  • News : The Guardian: Mend helps families in the fight against obesity - video
  • News : BBC: Tax fizzy drinks and ban junk food ads, say doctors
  • News : E-Health Insider: App allows real-time feedback
  • News : CYPN: Fifth of disabled children face informal school exclusion
  • News : CAF: Contact a Family calls on government to exempt disabled children from ‘bedroom tax’
  • News : The Telegraph: British families don't eat together - and, if they do, it's often in front of the TV
  • News : The Guardian: Child safety packs help protect vulnerable children in social housing
  • News : NHS Choices: Latest obesity stats for England are alarming
  • News : EurekAlert: Excessive TV in childhood linked to long-term antisocial behaviour
  • News : PsychCentral: Bullied children may have more psychiatric issues as adults
  • News : DH: Patients to get better care from healthcare assistants
  • News : SANDS: Parent Survey
  • News : The Guardian: US childhood obesity has plateaued as calorie-intake falls, studies suggest
  • News : DH: Young People in the Workplace pledge: a call for organisations
  • News : CYPN: European Commission advises investment to combat child poverty
  • News : CYPN: Charities urge extra early years support for visually impaired children
  • News : BBC: Is it healthy for children to take part in marathons? (audio)
  • News : NHS Choices: New NICE guidelines for NHS fertility treatment
  • News : The Guardian: Child obesity programmes struggle to survive cuts
  • News : The Guardian: Sex education: what 10-year-olds want to know
  • News : Bliss: Department for Education agree to look again at starting school policy: we need your views
  • News : AfC: Action for Children to help create Welsh Government’s national plan on child neglect
  • News : BBC: Border Agency 'endangering pregnant women's health'
  • News : Children's Food Trust: Cold chips in lunchboxes: nutrition fears from professionals ahead of children’s food conference
  • News : Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust: Newborn imaging facility will enable scientists to understand brain development and test new treatments for brain damage
  • News : BBC: Brighton and Hove considers anti-child drinking contracts
  • News : AfC: Vulnerable children need early action
  • News : BBC: The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures
  • News : NELM: EMA recommends approval of 6-in-1 paediatric vaccine
  • News : BBC: Babies can hear syllables in the womb, says research
  • News : NHS Choices: Low birthweight babies catch up by puberty
  • News : Community Care: Government silence on child safeguarding 'deeply worrying', says Loughton
  • News : Community Care: The Munro report two years on: social workers find little has changed
  • News : Express: Alarm at rise in older mums who hit bottle to beat stress
  • News : BBC: Ban smoking in cars, says health minister
  • News : PW: Council launches drive to recruit 'resilience foster carers' for troubled teenagers
  • News : HPA: Pandemic flu vaccination linked to narcolepsy in UK children
  • News : The Telegraph: Why giving birth to sons could be bad for your health
  • Report : NHS Choices: Swine flu jab narcolepsy risk is very small
  • News : BBC: Postnatal depression mothers 'need more support'
  • News : CAF: Benefits are changing from April
  • News : NCB: Trajectories and transitions of disabled children and young people
  • News : CAF: Has your child been referred to a genetics centre?
  • News : HPA: Cases of whooping cough continue to decrease: 1 March 2013
  • News : NHS Choices: Video games tested as treatment for dyslexia
  • News : BBC: New scheme targets problematic sexual behaviour in children
  • Method : BBC: Call for Dianette drug probe
  • News : The Telegraph: Intrusive parenting 'damages children's lives' says Claire Perry, David Cameron's adviser on childhood
  • News : The Telegraph: Don't panic, the teenage pregnancy epidemic is over!
  • News : The Telegraph: Abortion among married women in their 30s 'on the rise'
  • News : BBC: Lung complaints in premature children, Cardiff study
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 12
  • News : Children's Heart Federation: Infant Heart Study
  • News : BBC: Breast milk delivery launched by Midland blood bikes
  • News : Nuffield Foundation: Excluded children more likely to go to prison
  • News : NHS Choices: Reports of 'HIV cure' are sadly premature
  • News : NOO: Obesity guidance for local authorities
  • News : DCLG: New Jobcentre Plus advisers for troubled families
  • News : BBC: Immunity clue to premature labour
  • News : BBC: Wristbands warn of alcohol risks for young in Cardiff
  • News : NHS Choices: UK position worsens in 'early death league'
  • News : Community Care: Post-adoption support should be a legal right, says House of Lords
  • News : NHS Choices: ADHD can continue into adulthood, study finds
  • News : BBC: Campaigners win Leeds heart surgery legal challenge
  • News : NCB: Education Select Committee releases scrutiny of the SEN provisions
  • Report : NHS Employers: Results of the 2012 NHS staff survey published
  • News : Mental Elf: Physical activity a promising treatment for depression in children and young people, but more research is needed
  • News : CYPN: Councils cut back on young people's mental health services
  • News : BBC: 'No-one had heard of my boys' syndrome'
  • News : NHS Choices: Safety of brain implant for severe anorexia tested
  • News : The Children's Society: Hundreds of thousands of children lack free school meals
  • News : Community Care: Final plea to ministers over ‘spare bedroom tax’ for foster carers
  • News : NDCS: Live web chat – helping your deaf child make friends
  • News : University College London NDCS: University College London (UCL) are looking for deaf children to participate in exciting new research
  • News : CAF: ‘Bedroom tax’ victory – government drops court challenge on discriminatory rules cases
  • News : BBC: Baby Britain season
  • News : BBC: How it became almost mandatory for dads to attend the birth
  • News : BBC: Pregnancy rhesus disease errors too common
  • News : Eyes on Evidence March 2013
  • News : The Telegraph: It's time to end the NHS bias against mental health
  • News : YoungMinds: Stop cutting CAMHS services
  • News : BPS: Help develop a new web resource for children and young people's mental health
  • News : BBC: Warning over 'needless criminalisation' of children in care
  • News : The Telegraph: Childhood is over by 12 for Glee generation, warn parents
  • News : YJB: Improved assessment of young people is expected to further reduce reoffending
  • News : CPS: CPS and ACPO call for national consensus on tackling child sexual abuse
  • News : The Telegraph: Adoption push could break up families unnecessarily, peers warn
  • News : Herald Scotland: £1.2m plan for emotional support for pupils
  • News : NHS Choices: Postnatal depression hits one in seven mothers
  • News : NHS Choices: Sperm quality may be lower during summer
  • News : BBC: Tooth decay in children too high, says chief dental officer
  • News : DfE: £150m Olympic legacy boost for primary school sport in England
  • News : BBC: The power of art: can music treat ADHD?
  • News : The Guardian: Charity helps young disabled people learn about sex and relationships
  • News : BBC: Families sue Furness Hospital over baby and maternal deaths (video)
  • News : BBC: Stacey Solomon: Why I thought I was the 'worst mum'
  • News : Centrepoint: Host a young person in your home with supported lodgings
  • News : AFC: Government Adoption Advisor encourages LGBT people to consider fostering and adoption
  • News : UN: Human Rights Council discusses Right of the Child to the Highest attainable standard of health
  • News : BBC: Child obesity: Who are you calling fat?
  • News : UKNSC: New Key Performance Indicator (KPI) guidance
  • News : JRF: Children to become first casualties from benefits uprating
  • News : Barnardo's: Barnardo's response to the government's childcare funding plan
  • News : NHS Choices: Doubt cast on benefit of vitamin D in pregnancy
  • News : Longitudinal Study of Australia’s Children (LSAC): media backgrounder
  • News : Community Care: Siblings could be split up as spare bedroom tax hits foster carers
  • News : CAF: Make sure you get what you're entitled to - call our freephone helpline now
  • News : BBC: Meningitis Trust and Meningitis UK to merge
  • News : Barnardo's: Barnardo's response to the Chancellor's Budget announcement
  • News : BBC: Making babies happy, healthy - and green
  • News : BBC: Measles: 43 new cases in south west Wales outbreak
  • News : Bliss: Bliss produces vital Family Handbook in Punjabi
  • News : DfE: Revised safeguarding guidance for professionals working with children
  • News : BBC: 'Back from the abyss' in a teen mental health care unit
  • News : CAF: Important advice for families with disabled children on 'bedroom tax'
  • News : DfE: Written Ministerial statement: Review of Personal, Social, Health and Economic education
  • News : BBC: Nursery ratio plans criticised by government adviser
  • News : BBC: Amniotic fluid 'may heal premature baby gut'
  • News : NatCen: How can schools encourage children to lead healthier lifestyles?
  • News : NTA: NTA responds to Ofsted and Care Quality Commission report "What about the children?"
  • News : BBC: Boys suffer poor body image, say teachers
  • News : BBC: Disruptive behaviour rising, teachers say
  • News : The Independent: Pupils 'going hungry' because of cuts
  • News : The Guardian: Breastfeeding problems rarely lead to serious illness, study shows
  • News : BBC: Three-person IVF moves closer in UK
  • News : BBC: Measles: 64 new cases in south west Wales outbreak
  • News : The Guardian: Mothers can cut asthma risk in baby by avoiding fish, nuts and dairy, says study
  • News : BBC: Delivery dads: Readers share their stories
  • News : The Telegraph: New York’s teen pregnancy shame campaign is based on manipulated data
  • News : DH: Updated guidance on infant formula and Parnuts notification published
  • News : UNICEF UK: UNICEF UK statement on new research into neonatal hypernatraemia
  • News : BBC: Measles - 'Alarming rate' of south west Wales epidemic
  • News : 4Children: Cutting short maternity leave is not a choice mothers should have to make, says Anne Longfield
  • News : BJOG: Overweight and obese women at higher risk of adverse neonatal and maternal outcomes
  • News : CYPN: Tackle conduct disorders to prevent offending, say health experts
  • News : University of Exeter: Meditation technique enhances children’s mental health
  • News : PSHE Association: Update for members following announcement of DfE PSHE review outcome
  • News : Hansard: Review of Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
  • News : SEF: The Sex Education Forum voices concerns that PSHE Review Outcome 'does not go far enough'
  • News : NHS Choices: New guidelines on child antisocial behaviour
  • News : Cancer Research UK: More than 200,000 UK children start smoking every year
  • News : Community Care: Government to review child protection thresholds
  • News : BBC: Leeds heart surgery death figures wrong, says cardiologist
  • News : NHS Choices: High UK child death rates unfairly blamed on GPs
  • News : CYPN: 'Two-tier' care for children in custody criticised
  • News : BBC: Young cancer deaths 'halved in last 30 years'
  • News : NiP: More support needed for children with migraine
  • News : BBC: Talk to children about alcohol, say campaigners (video)
  • News : NHS Choices: Do TV and video games really make kids naughty?
  • News : The Guardian: Dog bites data: how likely are you to get bitten?
  • News : BBC: 'No' not always the answer for children's bad behaviour (audio)
  • News : BBC: Leeds child heart surgery suspension: tale of two families (video)
  • News : The Guardian: Parents in Wales urged to give children MMR vaccine
  • News : The Guardian: Leeds General Infirmary halts heart surgery on children
  • News : The Telegraph: Mothers asked nearly 300 questions a day, study finds
  • News : CYPN: Youth commission to advise on tobacco-free target
  • News : Contact a Family: Sharing stories - can you help?
  • News : The Guardian: Leeds General child heart surgery suspended for 'constellation' of reasons
  • News : BBC: Child heart surgery at Leeds had to stop, says NHS boss
  • News : The Guardian: Leeds General Infirmary halts children's heart operations
  • News : BBC: Leeds hospital suspends child heart surgery
  • News : BBC: Leeds child heart op suspension remains after talks
  • News : BBC: Measles: extra clinics in Swansea for MMR demand
  • News : BBC: Should parents drug babies on long flights?
  • News : SAPHNA: SAPHNA set up new school and public health nursing journal
  • News : PfA: Commissioning - The Children and Families Bill
  • News : The Telegraph: New mothers 'should be interviewed by health visitors to see how they are coping'
  • News : DH: Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin: March 2013
  • News : BBC: Measles: over 500 cases in Swansea epidemic
  • News : CAF: Welfare changes condemned by Contact a Family
  • News : NAS: Every Child in Need campaign
  • News : DH: Family Nurse Partnership programme to be extended
  • Report : The Guardian: Leeds children's heart unit future in jeopardy
  • Report : BBC: Measles: 'Extra MMR jab' offer in Swansea epidemic
  • Report : The Telegraph: Men 'just as broody as women', study suggests
  • Report : The Guardian: MMR jab warning as measles cases soar 25% over Easter
  • Report : The Guardian: Measles outbreak in Wales blamed on MMR vaccination scare - video
  • News : Community Care: Councils plan to halve national shortfall of adoptive parents within a year
  • News : BBC: Leeds General Infirmary children's heart surgery to resume
  • News : BBC: US judge lifts 'morning after' pill age limit
  • News : BBC: Measles: more vaccination clinics to tackle Swansea epidemic
  • News : BBC: Using tree food recipes to fight off malnutrition
  • News : BBC: Baby milk rationed in UK over China export fear
  • News : Community Care: What social workers need to know about the new NHS
  • News : NHS Choices: Brain’s appetite circuits could be 'rewired'
  • News : NHS Choices: Study adds little to tonsil surgery debate
  • News : BBC: Scientists track leukaemia's origins 'back to the womb'
  • News : BBC: Measles: No end to Swansea epidemic as cases reach 620
  • News : BBC: Sir Bruce Keogh: 'Leeds submitted bad data'
  • News : NAS: Disability Living Allowance replaced by Personal Independence Payment for adults in north of England from today (8 April 2013)
  • News : CAF: Need help challenging bedroom tax decisions?
  • News : CYPN: Project set to look at the bright side of care
  • News : CAF: Your opportunity to influence specialised health services in England
  • News : CYPN: Care applications reach new record high
  • News : CYPN: DfE axes Children's Improvement Board funding
  • News : CYPN: Teach First expands into early years
  • News : BBC: UK child well-being: problems and progress
  • News : Community Care: SCRs to get more expensive but no guarantee on learning
  • News : DH: Hospices receive £60 million funding boost
  • News : BBC: Children transferred during Leeds heart unit suspension
  • News : CYPN: School project tackles parental drug abuse
  • News : Early Intervention Foundation: Early Intervention Foundation launch
  • News : The Telegraph: Why a newborn baby’s cord should not be cut too soon
  • News : BBC: Wales measles: school MMR sessions for 2,000 pupils
  • News : BBC: Leeds heart surgery: MP calls for committee inquiry
  • News : BBC: Measles: Swansea newspaper not to blame, ex-editor claims
  • News : NHS Choices: Report finds children's units lack 24/7 care
  • News : BBC: Boy 'lived as a robot' for two months (video)
  • News : AFC: Concern over impact of benefit cap on vulnerable children and families
  • News : BBC: Why are school nurses important?
  • News : Community Care: Ofsted u-turn on child protection inspection plans
  • News : BBC: Measles jab advice 'getting through' in Swansea
  • News : The Telegraph: Fears American children are being over-medicated as ADHD rates soar
  • News : CYPN: Sudden infant death tops worries for new mums
  • News : BBC: Long shadow cast by MMR scare
  • News : BBC: Babies' brains to be mapped in the womb and after birth
  • News : BBC: Measles: 'make MMR jab mandatory' call by US expert
  • News : CYPN: Fear of being a 'bad parent' rife among families
  • News : CYPN: Child protection gap identified in a fifth of hospitals
  • News : The Telegraph: How to support teenage fathers without shaming them
  • News : CAF: Help for families with disabled and seriously ill children on low income
  • News : BBC: Nick Clegg denies government 'deception' over midwife numbers
  • News : NiP: Whooping cough vaccinations to continue
  • News : The Guardian: Casualty turns spotlight on female genital mutilation
  • News : NHS Choices: Can music help premature infants sleep and feed?
  • News : NICE Eyes on Evidence: infections, disability, rheumatoid arthritis, heart failure, drug interactions and more
  • News : BBC: Light drinking 'not harmful to baby' say scientists
  • News : DH: School nurses to play a bigger role in improving children’s health
  • News : CAF: Get Connected, the magazine for parents of disabled children and all who work with them
  • News : DH: Voluntary groups lend a hand to government to improve health and wellbeing
  • News : 4Children: Major new study to look at early education in England
  • News : BBC: A million children at risk of measles, doctors warn
  • News : NHS England: Release of two data reports relating to children’s heart surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals
  • News : CDRPSP: Childhood Disability Research Priority Setting Partnership survey
  • News : Science Daily: Learning disabilities affect up to 10 per cent of children
  • News : NiP: Importance of realistic goals for overweight children
  • News : BBC: Does technology hinder or help toddlers' learning?
  • News : The Lancet: Child and adolescent wellbeing in the UK
  • News : The Independent: Pay up or watch child poverty get worse, top advisers tell coalition
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles: hundreds at clinics held after man's death
  • News : NHS Choices: Does tough love work?
  • News : The Telegraph: Why your child's car seat probably isn't safe
  • News : Teaching Times: Children with epilepsy risk a poorer standard of education
  • News : The Guardian: Measles outbreak in Wales shows children need MMR jab, says expert (video)
  • News : The Guardian: Measles: what you need to know about the disease
  • News : BBC: NHS appeals in Leeds General Infirmary children's heart row
  • News : CYPN: Split youth and adult drug services, concludes review
  • News : BBC: Leeds heart surgery suspension right, says Jeremy Hunt
  • News : CYPN: Deaf young people 'face exclusion from services'
  • News : The Independent: Children's heart surgery to restart at Leeds General Infirmary on Wednesday
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles epidemic: cases increase to 808
  • News : The Guardian: Measles outbreak sees 'missing generation' queuing for MMR jab
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles: vaccination campaign targets five schools
  • News : The Guardian: Parents need to know homeopathy does not protect against measles, says MP
  • News : BBC: Poor support for family carers unacceptable says minister
  • News : CYPN: Experts issue standards to help children with genetic condition
  • News : CYPN: DfE hires charity to develop personal budget plans for disabled children
  • News : Midwives: Uterus transplant patient is pregnant
  • News : DH: Help for NHS staff to spot and support trafficking victims
  • News : The Independent: Free school meals may be scrapped by councils under 'tidal wave' of cuts
  • News : ERIC: ERIC to launch first ever Bedwetting Awareness Week in May
  • News : The Telegraph: Jeremy Hunt promises national plan to tackle measles outbreak
  • News : BBC: Catholic midwives win appeal over abortion case
  • News : Midwives: Obese women risk babies’ health
  • News : RCM: Promoting breastfeeding with Mothercare from Monday 17th to Sunday 23rd June 2013
  • News : Cancer Research UK: Key words by GPs that speed up a child's cancer diagnosis
  • News : NICE: "Life changing" treatment approved for people with severe asthma
  • News : The Lullaby Trust: More than a half of mums fear that their baby will never wake up new survey reveals
  • News : BBC: Catch-up campaign to combat measles (video)
  • News : NHS England: NHS England urges parents to get their children vaccinated against measles
  • News : PHE: Council access to health care data from the NHS
  • News : BBC: Eating same food as parents 'healthier for children'
  • News : Contact a Family: Make sure disabled children are a priority in YOUR area!
  • News : BBC: MMR jab plea ahead of Urdd Eisteddfod in Cilwendeg, Pembrokeshire
  • News : The Guardian: Measles and MMR: the essential guide
  • News : BBC: Measles outbreak: in maps and graphics (includes video)
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles: Clinic quizzed over single jab claims
  • News : BBC: Playing Tetris video game 'fixes lazy eye', doctors say
  • News : The Telegraph: Men need to better prepare for the 'gore' of childbirth
  • News : The Guardian: Measles outbreak: 10% rise in number of cases since last week
  • News : BBC: Government rejects measles outbreak 'blame'
  • News : BBC: Measles in Wales: 2,500 given MMR jabs at clinics
  • News : The Guardian: Queues form at clinics as south Wales heeds MMR immunisation message
  • News : The Guardian: Swansea GP blames measles outbreak on MMR fears – video
  • News : RCN: Nurses crucial to uptake of MMR vaccine, says RCN
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles: First Minister urges MMR jabs for children
  • News : CYPN: Thousands of children miss out on communication aids
  • News : The Guardian: Measles outbreak: number of cases rises 121 in a week
  • News : NHS Choices: MMR catch-up campaign targets a million children
  • News : DH: First fully comprehensive free comparison website for care services goes live
  • News : BBC: Making childbirth safer and easier for women
  • News : NSPCC: Thousands of children repeatedly go missing from care
  • News : BBC: Girls' school holds 'blow your own trumpet' week
  • News : Howard League: 17-year-olds in police custody should be treated as children
  • News : DH: Millions more protected against disease through improved vaccination programme
  • News : FI: Fathers' Story Week is an annual celebration of the power of dads' reading with their children
  • News : NHS Choices: Have taller women evolved to have more babies?
  • News : PHE Bulletin: 30 April 2013
  • News : BBC: Primary one obesity 'has been too high' for more than a decade
  • News : NHS Choices: Negative parenting linked with kids being bullied
  • News : BBC: Cutting cord early 'risk to babies'
  • News : NIHR: Discovery of new genes will help childhood arthritis treatment
  • News : CAF: Help beating the bedroom tax
  • News : DH and PHE: PHE welcomes changes to the UK vaccination programme
  • News : BBC: Heart surgery review 'cost over £6m' Leeds MP is told
  • News : BBC: NI children's heart surgery 'should move from Belfast to Dublin'
  • News : BBC: London teenager gets mobile app-controlled 'bionic arm'
  • News : ESRC: Primary pupils miss out on the outdoors
  • News : BBC: Poor sex education leaves pupils vulnerable - Ofsted
  • News : NIHR: Protecting babies from food and dust mite allergens in first year may prevent asthma
  • News : BBC: Child weekend emergency admissions give 'no added risk'
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles: cases in epidemic rise to 1,039
  • News : BBC: The challenge of overcoming MMR vaccine fears (video)
  • News : The Guardian: Measles vaccination campaign begins - video
  • News : The Guardian: Cutting cord too early puts babies at risk, NHS warned
  • News : The Guardian: Datablog: MMR vaccinations: get the data by primary care trust
  • News : The Guardian: Measles: 'greater risk of infection' in private schools
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles: 2,500 receive MMR jab at drop-in clinics
  • News : The Guardian: The story behind the MMR scare
  • News : The Guardian: Measles outbreak triggers fresh emphasis on MMR vaccinations
  • News : The Guardian: Transplant hope for women born without wombs
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles: MMR schools vaccinations in west Wales
  • News : The Guardian: Junk foods avoid ad ban by targeting children online
  • News : CYPN: Matron service steers children away from A&E
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles: epidemic tops 1,000 cases
  • News : Youth Access: Free workshops for youth counselling services
  • News : BBC: Sweatier babies 'are less aggressive toddlers', Cardiff research suggests
  • News : BBC: US morning-after pill approved for 15-year-olds
  • News : The Guardian: Surrey hospital ceases surgery on children
  • News : The Guardian: Hospitals 'are ignoring advice on caesarean sections'
  • News : BBC: Maternity care varies across England
  • News : The Guardian: FDA files appeal over Plan B morning-after pill decision
  • News : BBC: MMR: how parents feel now about avoiding jabs
  • News : BBC: Child surgery stopped over 'life-threatening' failings at Mount Alvernia Hospital
  • News : The Guardian: MMR vaccination drive targets 43,000 children as measles epidemic spreads
  • News : NHS Choices: No proof kids of lone parents are less intelligent
  • News : Midwives: Can fish oil prevent premature birth?
  • News : PHE: Cancer deaths ‘vary significantly’ within a year of diagnosis among young adults
  • News : BBC: Asthma hospital admission rates vary 'alarmingly'
  • News : BBC: Threat to measles elimination plans
  • News : BBC: Abuse awareness poster is 'only fully visible to children'
  • News : The Independent: Every child to get flu vaccine in bid to prevent epidemic
  • News : YoungMinds: Self-harm first aid advice launched
  • News : BBC: Bullied children using 'wrong jokes'
  • Website : AcSEED Initiative
  • News : BBC: Flu in pregnancy 'may raise bipolar risk for baby'
  • News : NIHR: CLAHRC for North West London
  • News : EurekAlert: Schools may help close gap to mental health services for adolescents with mental disorders
  • News : Science Daily: Why family conflict affects some children more than others
  • News : BBC: Diabetes - dirty air 'may raise' insulin resistance risk
  • News : Community Care: Care applications rise 70% in years since Baby P case
  • News : CAF: Contact a Family fears parent carers will be left in 'no man’s land'
  • News : DH: Whooping cough vaccination programme for pregnant women: extension to 2014
  • News : BBC: Obesity obsession 'means other weight problems missed'
  • News : DCMS: Campaign to get women and girls active kick-starts today
  • News : BBC: Pregnancy smoking tests
  • News : PHE: Latest whooping cough cases published by PHE
  • News : Handsel project: Sleep practitioner training: places still available
  • Report : Community Care: If leaving home is too scary for many, what hope do our care leavers have?
  • News : BBC: Swansea measles - Cases rise by 20 to 1,094
  • News : CYPN: Payment-by-results cuts demand on youth justice services
  • News : CYPN: Troubled families initiative misses first-year target
  • News : BBC: Brain scan study to understand workings of teenage mind
  • News : UKNSC: Screening Matters Issue 13
  • News : EurekAlert: Can breastfeeding protect against ADHD?
  • News : Guardian: Do we need to change the way we are thinking about mental illness?
  • News : Vaccine update: issue 201 April 2013
  • News : Community Care: Oxford sex abuse case highlights social work and police failings
  • News : BBC: Young carers: quarter of a million children provide care for others
  • News : Guardian: We have to decide to listen to sexually abused children
  • News : BBC: Mother asked to pay back £375,000 compensation after son dies
  • News : NHS Choices: Absent fathers linked to depression risk in girls
  • News : DfE: First ever chief social worker for children and fast-track training to lead social work reform
  • News : Guardian: Youngsters use dementia drugs to boost brain power, survey finds
  • News : BBC: Walk-to-school numbers falling, say campaigners
  • News : BBC: Bed-sharing 'raises cot death risk fivefold'
  • News : UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative statement on new bed sharing research
  • News : Guardian: Students stay silent about mental health problems, survey shows
  • News : NICE: Updated guidance to help assess children with fever

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