children

One in three young people say their mental health and wellbeing improved during COVID-19 lockdown measures, with potential contributing factors...

Play-based learning may also have a more positive effect on younger children’s acquisition of important early maths skills compared with traditional...

Researchers have identified two subgroups of adolescents who self-harm and have shown that it is possible to predict those individuals at greatest...

Guaranteeing every child the opportunity to participate in certain types of physical activity could support their academic attainment and help to...

Helping parents with depression or anxiety could also improve their ability to engage in potentially ‘protective’ forms of play with their children...

Around one in 57 (1.76%) children in the UK is on the autistic spectrum, significantly higher than previously reported, according to a study of more...

Experts have issued a stark warning about the effects of the pandemic on the mental health of children and young people.

Duncan Astle is a neuroscientist on a mission to understand why the brains of some children develop differently to others – and how it affects not...