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Children encouraged to swap 'screen time' for time outdoors

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Monday, March 17, 2014

| Nursery World

Three children’s organisations in the UK are urging children to get outdoors for National Children’s Day 2014.

New project encourages communities to work together to improve children's diets

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

| Nursery World

A pilot project designed to show how businesses and the Government can work together to fight childhood obesity and poor nutrition is to launch next week.

Children wanted for research into new eczema treatment

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Monday, January 6, 2014

| Nursery World

Three hundred children are being recruited for a clinical trial to determine whether silk clothing can help in the treatment of eczema.

MPs and early years experts pledge support to make early years a worldwide priority

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

| Nursery World

A call to put early childhood development (ECD) at the heart of the United Nations' next global development goals has received cross-party support.

New campaign raises awareness of the threat of meningitis to under-fives

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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

| Nursery World

A new global campaign to highlight the impact of meningitis on children and their families was launched today in London.

UK misses MMR target, but immunisation at all-time high

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Friday, September 27, 2013

| Nursery World

The number of children having the MMR jab has reached a record high, however coverage is still lower than the 95 per cent target set by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

More than a quarter of five-year-olds have tooth decay

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

| Nursery World

According to figures published by Public Health England (PHE) on the oral health of five year olds, over 27 per cent of children in 2012 had tooth decay.

Campaign 'names and shames' stores that sell junk food at the checkout

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Monday, September 16, 2013

| Nursery World

A new campaign has been launched to urge supermarkets to remove unhealthy snacks from checkouts and queuing areas.

School children losing 'learning time' because they are hungry

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Friday, September 13, 2013

| Nursery World

Primary school children in England and Wales turning up at school hungry are missing out on eight weeks of education, reveals new research.

Charity to work with deprived areas to improve children's health

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

| Nursery World

The British Heart Foundation has committed 1.2m to help deprived areas in the UK cut children's risk of heart disease.

Early Intervention Foundation to work with 20 best practice areas

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

| Nursery World

The Early Intervention Foundation has named the 20 'pioneering places' it will work closely with to provide 'real-life', practical answers about how to deliver early intervention to the best effect.

Labour MPS call for integrated approach to overcome inequality

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Labour politicians Dame Tessa Jowell and Ivan Lewis MP have called for a focus on early intervention among poverty-stricken children to be at the heart of the post-2015 framework for developing countries.

Greggs charity expands breakfast clubs

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

| Nursery World

The charity run by the bakery chain Greggs has just opened its 12th breakfast club this year.

School survey reveals how poverty blights children's lives

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

| Nursery World

Fifty-five per cent of school support staff have seen an increase this year in the number of children relying on breakfast clubs, finds new research.

Healthier foods served at nurseries in nutritional training trial

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The first training sessions to help early years practitioners deliver the nutritional guidelines have led to 'big improvements' to the food served at settings, finds new research.

Poll reveals children don't know where their food comes from

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Monday, June 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Nearly a third of primary school children think that cheese comes from plants and nearly one in five believe fish fingers come from chicken.

Welfare cuts force more than a million people in the UK to turn to food aid

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

| Nursery World

A new report from Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty warns that Britain faces a hidden scandal where thousands of people cannot feed themselves or their families.

Co-sleeping raises cot death risk

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

| Nursery World

Parents who share a bed with their breastfed baby increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome five-fold, warns a new study, the largest analysis of its kind.

Grants available for projects that boost vitamin D in children

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners can apply for a grant of up to 5,000 to fund projects that raise awareness of the importance of vitamin D and boost the intake in pre-school children.

Light drinking during in pregnancy 'not harmful'

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

| Nursery World

Light drinking during pregnancy does not harm child behavioural or cognitive development, according to new research by University College London.

Measles cases in Wales hit record high

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

| Nursery World

Parents in Wales are being urged to act quickly to vaccinate their children against measles as the number of cases hits 765.

Family Nurse Partnership to be extended

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Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The Family Nurse Partnership is to be extended to provide support to 16,000 of the most disadvantaged new mothers and fathers in England by 2015.

Baby food blamed for children eating too many calories

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Friday, March 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Government research reveals that children are consuming too many calories and more salt than is recommended, with the biggest contributors being infant formula and commercial baby foods.

Concerns raised by professionals over children's nutrition

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Monday, February 25, 2013

| Nursery World

More than four out of ten professionals who work with children have given food to a child in the last two years because they were worried they were not getting enough to eat, finds a new survey.

Taking folic acid during pregnancy could reduce the risk of autism

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Pregnant women could reduce their child's risk of autism by 40 per cent with the consumption of folic acid supplements according to recent research.

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Children encouraged to swap 'screen time' for time outdoors

New project encourages communities to work together to improve children's diets

Children wanted for research into new eczema treatment

MPs and early years experts pledge support to make early years a worldwide priority

New campaign raises awareness of the threat of meningitis to under-fives

UK misses MMR target, but immunisation at all-time high

More than a quarter of five-year-olds have tooth decay

Campaign 'names and shames' stores that sell junk food at the checkout

School children losing 'learning time' because they are hungry

Charity to work with deprived areas to improve children's health

Early Intervention Foundation to work with 20 best practice areas

Labour MPS call for integrated approach to overcome inequality

Greggs charity expands breakfast clubs

School survey reveals how poverty blights children's lives

Healthier foods served at nurseries in nutritional training trial

Poll reveals children don't know where their food comes from

Welfare cuts force more than a million people in the UK to turn to food aid

Co-sleeping raises cot death risk

Grants available for projects that boost vitamin D in children

Light drinking during in pregnancy 'not harmful'

Measles cases in Wales hit record high

Family Nurse Partnership to be extended

Baby food blamed for children eating too many calories

Concerns raised by professionals over children's nutrition

Taking folic acid during pregnancy could reduce the risk of autism

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