The BHFNC and its Early Years Advisory Group have today launched The Best Start in Life – A manifesto for physical activity in the early years to ensure that every child has access to high quality physical activity opportunities from birth.
Read MoreBJSM Online First, published on December 11 2013 CHILD ACTIVITY PARADOXES A rapidly burgeoning evidence base demonstrates a link between academic performance and physical fitness (ciosely linked to physical...
Read MoreThe Guardian | Daniel Boffey | Sunday 10 January 2016 The prime minister will call for a revolution in child rearing this weekend by suggesting that all parents should attend classes on how to discipline their...
Read MoreBBC News | 7 January 2016 Prime Minister David Cameron says he does not want to rule out introducing a sugar tax in order to tackle Britain’s “obesity crisis”. Mr Cameron said it would be better not to...
Read MoreLearn, Explore, Debate | January, 2016, various venues As part of its work in continuing in the role as the DfE’s strategic partner for early years and childcare, 4Children has organised the next round of LED events.
Read MoreThe Guardian | Simon Parker | 5 January 2016 Abstract | Is the success of the government’s troubled families scheme too good to be true? The prime minister claims to have turned around the lives of 99% of the families targeted...
Read MoreBBC News | Smitha Mundasad Health reporter | 7 January 2016 Rising levels of obesity and unhealthy weights could be linked to 670,000 extra cases of cancer in the next 20 years, a UK report predicts. If current trends continue,...
Read MoreMedical Xpress | Jo Manning | January 5, 2016 The aim of the study is to learn more about the health of young Australians as they pass through the ‘checkpoint’ between childhood and adolescence....
Read MoreThe Guardian | Bee Wilson | 5 January 2015 Abstract: Once you recognise the simple fact that food preferences are learned, many of the ways we approach eating start to look a little weird. To take a small example, consider...
Read MoreBBC News | Health | 4 January 2016 Parents are being urged to sign up for a free app which tells them the sugar content of food and drink. The “sugar smart app”, from Public Health England, works by scanning barcodes...
Read Morethe conversation | Faith Gordon | January 4, 2016 Today’s children will feature in almost 1,000 online photographs by the time they reach the age of five. That’s according to recent research commissioned by the...
Read MoreThe Commons Work and Pensions and Education Select Committees | 17 December 2015 The Commons Work and Pensions and Education Select Committees are launching a joint inquiry into the Government’s life chances strategy...
Read MoreNew York Times | LILLIAN MONGEAU | 29 December 2015 All three children are students at Fiddleheads Forest School here, where they spend four hours a day, rain or shine, in adjacent cedar grove “classrooms”...
Read MoreThe 2016 New Year Honours list, published on 31 December 2015, recognises 107 people for their service to education and children’s services.
Read MoreMedical Xpress | 28 December 2015 Eating too much is typically considered one of the prime culprits of obesity. A new study published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, looked specifically at...
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