Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.

‘Shocking’ breaches such as sweets and crisps at breakfast uncovered just before expansion of access to free school meals

As the government prepares to introduce updated school food standards, The BMJ finds that more than a third of the firms exhibiting at a major school food show sell products high in fat, sugar, or sal...

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

Alan Milburn has outlined a generation cut adrift by austerity. We must grasp the nettle and rebuild a preventive state

Ban this counterproductive form of discipline Physical, or corporal, punishment—euphemistically known as smacking, spanking, and slapping—involves hitting or otherwise hurting children to modify thei...

Amrit Kaur Purba and colleagues argue that the effects of adolescent social media restrictions are not simple and need to be considered within social, technological, commercial, and political contexts...

Commons health committee also recommends end to junk food advertising on billboards and public transport

In 2026 children’s health is in decline. Across nearly all major measures, outcomes have worsened or stagnated across the UK, reversing years of progress, and the impact is felt most sharply in depriv...

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

The UCL study also found physically punished children were more likely to struggle in school

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Exclusive: Health Foundation says Britain is ‘going backwards’ compared with most other rich countries

The government has published its Neighbourhood Health Framework, setting out how local health and care services are expected to work more closely together at a neighbourhood level. For organisations a...

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A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

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Researchers say more speech and interaction around children can aid the development of young brains.

A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a month for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery, asks writer Caelainn Hogan

Parr rose to prominence in the mid 1980s, his colourful images capturing British life.

The public relies on measured, careful statements rooted in robust scientific research, not conjecture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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