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Towards an integrated understanding of the child
Save Childhood Movement | April 2015 | Throughout the world there is a growing concern that children are being exposed to a range of pressures that may be damaging to their long-term health and wellbeing – and as...
Read MoreNew Report | Breaking the Lock
iMPOWER | Amanda Kelly | April 29, 2015 ‘Breaking The Lock’, which explores the challenges faced by children’s services, calls for the inspection process to modernise and offers a vision...
Read MoreBreaking The Lock | New Report
iMPOWER | Amanda Kelly | April 29, 2015 ‘Breaking The Lock’, which explores the challenges faced by children’s services, calls for the inspection process to modernise and offers a vision for what...
Read MoreFour of the top five YouTube channels are for kids
The Guardian | Tech | YouTube | Stuart Dredge | 1 May 2015 Google’s video service has become a global children’s TV staple thanks to channels like Funtoys Collector and Little Baby Bum Four of the five most...
Read MoreTurning a Children’s Rating System Into an Advocacy Army
New York Times | Technology | NATASHA SINGER | APRIL 26, 2015 Abstract : On Monday, the group plans to introduce an even more ambitious national advocacy effort, called Common Sense Kids Action, to push for...
Read More2015 Annual National Conference: Explore, Discover, Create
Early Education | Friday 12 and Saturday 13 June 2015 | Plymouth Opening keynote speech | Professor Peter Moss | Explore, Discover, CreateClosing keynote speech | John Siraj-Blatchford | Education for...
Read MoreJumping, running and throwing: can your kids do these challenges?
The Telegraph | Childrens Health | 22 Apr 2015 Two-thirds of primary school-age children are falling below the recommended levels of fitness for their age group, research has warned. A study of 10,000 5 to 11-year-olds...
Read MoreEncouraging physical development through movement-play
Speaker | Carol Archer | Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre| | 5 May 2015 Movement is the common denominator of all learning’ (Brearley). In her talk Carol will discuss the importance of...
Read MoreToddlers prepare for their first big interview
BBC News | Magazine | Hong Kong | Helier Cheung | 23 April 2015 Getting into good schools or universities is tough in many parts of the world, but in Hong Kong the pressure begins earlier. Often parents try to get...
Read MoreExercise ‘not key to obesity fight’
BBC News | Health | April 23 2015 Physical activity has little role in tackling obesity – and instead public health messages should squarely focus on unhealthy eating, doctors say. In an editorial in the...
Read Moreukactive launches new children’s activity strategy
BHFNC weekly physical activity bulletin | A new strategy for children’s physical activity has been launched by ukactive. A new membership package ‘ukactive kids’ has been formed to work towards their vision of a more active...
Read MoreOur Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D Putnam review
The Observer | Society | Richard Reeves | Monday 20 April 2015 Abstract : This gap amounts, Putnam fears, to a “crisis” for the American dream of equal opportunity. Advantages pile up for the kids born to...
Read MoreCouncil sports budgets cut by £42m
BBC News | 15 April 2015 More than £42m has been axed from councils’ sports and leisure budgets since 2010, a BBC survey has revealed. Among the regions which saw the biggest losses were London and north-west...
Read MoreBaby baby: The tech that rocks the cradle
BBC News | Business | Padraig Belton, Business reporter ! 21 April 2015 One day, your grandchildren will be incredulous you survived the cradle without masses of technology. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a...
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