children

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Understanding the implications of enabling children to grow into healthy, happy, educated and inquiring adults, in safety and free from adversity.

Use of TV, internet and computer games associated with poorer GCSE grades

04 Sep 2015

Each extra hour per day spent watching TV, using the internet or playing computer games during Year 10 is associated with poorer grades at GCSE at...

Play’s the thing

04 Aug 2015

Children’s play is under threat from increased urbanisation, perceptions of risk and educational pressures. The first research centre of its kind...

New index of children’s ‘school readiness’ highlights importance of family support

28 May 2015

The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational...

Blood markers could help predict outcome of infant heart surgery

06 May 2015

New research suggests it may be possible to predict an infant’s progress following surgery for congenital heart disease by analysing a number of...

Cover image from Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms

Families with a difference: the reality behind the hype

12 Mar 2015

Families come in many guises. Some parents are same-sex; others are single by choice. Growing numbers of children are conceived through assistive...

A child's portrait of multiculturalism in the playground

“You need to ignore it, babe”: how mothers prepare young children for the reality of racism

19 Jan 2015

Research among mothers with young children living in multicultural London shows that racism is a reality for children as young as five – and that...

Trilogy of short films explores young people’s views of life in social care

27 Nov 2014

A powerful new short film created with young people in residential care is helping provide valuable insights for service providers into the...

Overnight home use of artificial pancreas ‘feasible and beneficial’

22 Apr 2014

Children with type 1 diabetes have been able to use pioneering artificial pancreas technology, developed at the University of Cambridge, for the...

When mothers are active so are their children – but many mothers are not

24 Mar 2014

A study of physical activity patterns of women and their four-year-olds reveals a strong association between the two. It also shows that only 53% of...