US | Legislation to support schools may help reduce health barriers to learning
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This Junk-Food-Funded Elementary School Curriculum Is Bonkers
MotherJones.com | Julia Lurie | 3 December 2015 Kids are learning that they can exercise away Big Macs and Pepsis. Scientists beg to differ. At elementary schools nationwide, a health curriculum called Energy Balance 101 has...
Read MoreTeachers Are About to Get the Data They Need to Educate Your Kids, Experts Say
MotherJones.com | Kristina Rizga | Tuesday 22 December 2015 Nine big-city schools in California, covering almost 1 million kids, are trying to break away from “one size fits all” teaching....
Read MoreState of the Nation 2015: Social Mobility and Child Poverty in Great Britain
Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission | State of the Nation Report 2015 | Published December 2015 The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission is an independent statutory body which examines what is happening to child...
Read MoreNestle drops ad slogan after criticism it encouraged poor nutritional habits in children
Marketing Week | Sarah Vizard | 23 Dec 2015 Nestle has said it will no longer use an advertising slogan for its Nesquik brand and will concentrate efforts on reducing sugar in its products after the ASA decided its...
Read MoreQueen’s Speech: Intervention for ‘coasting’ schools
BBC News | Sean Coughlan Education correspondent | 27 May 2015 Underperforming schools in England will face a more rapid intervention, under plans announced in the Queen’s Speech. The government’s proposed...
Read MoreDoE | The impact of children’s centres
Research Report | Studying the effects of children’s centres in promoting better outcomes for young children and their families. Evaluation of Children’s Centres in England (ECCE, Strand 4) | December 2015 The six...
Read MoreResearchers suggest U.S. Dietary Guidelines lack scientific credibility
Medical Xpress | Bob Shepard 18 December 2015 The methods used to base decision-making for the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee are inherently and fatally flawed, according...
Read MoreNew strategy to strengthen sport from the grassroots to the elite
Press release | Department for Culture, Media & Sport and Tracey Crouch MP | 17 December 2017 Public investment into community sport is to reach children as young as five as part of a ground-breaking...
Read MoreCounselling parents makes children with autism communicative
Hindustan Times | Sanchita Sharma |16 December 2015 A parent-based therapy that helps children with autism communicate better with their families works when adapted and localised to fit low-resource settings in south Asia,...
Read MoreHM Government | Sporting Future
Report | A New Strategy for an Active Nation | December 2015 This new strategy for sport and physical activity moves beyond merely looking at how many people take part. It will consider what people get out of participating and...
Read MoreOutsourcing is the future for children’s services
The Guardian | Patrick Butler | 15 December 2015 We are failing the most vulnerable children in society, the prime minister, David Cameron, admitted on Monday. He promised that this would change; he would not...
Read MoreEarly childhood depression alters brain development
Medical Xpress | December 16, 2015 The new study is published Dec. 16 in JAMA Psychiatry. “What is noteworthy about these findings is that we are able to see how a life experience—such as an episode of...
Read Moreactivematters | newsletter 2015 round up!
During the Summer – we launched a petition to raise awareness of young children’s poor activity levels and proposed a range of possible solutions – that would engage parents, practitioners – and take into account the needs of children themselves.
Read MoreChildren’s choices influenced by dominance of junk food marketing
Medical Xpress | Pediatrics | December 10, 2015 Stirling’s Institute of Social Marketing was commissioned to investigate the impact of food and drink marketing on Scotland’s young people. In a study of...
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