This is important to maintain a strong immune system – helping to prevent the colds, flus and bugs that children may pick up at school. It also contributes to wound healing – key for children ...

Children’s After School Achievement (CASA) is a community after-school program of Hope College that promotes educational achievement among underrepresented children. By way of intentional ...

Those whose parents had divorced were more likely to fail to progress at school. Children who were in what the researchers characterised as a "fragile family", where parents were cohabiting or ...

for millions of children and youth, it is beyond reach and many are not learning basic skills like reading and math if they do attend school. The Global Education team works across five major areas, ...

What is School Health and Nutrition? Millions of school-age children are affected by serious, yet easily treatable and preventable, illnesses, which inhibit their ability to learn. Save the Children’s ...

Equally, remember that when your child outgrows their uniform, you could always donate it to charities or the school for other children to use. Some charities encourage people to recycle and ...

Thousands more children from England’s poorest households are eating a free school meal because of a new trial scheme. The pilot project, run by the Fix Our Food research programme and involving ...

Separation anxiety becomes problematic if it persists into the school years and causes children to fear leaving home or getting lost. What do children worry about? Children worry, and they feel ...

As spooky season approaches, the master of children’s horror recommends creepy-crawly classics and modern thrills for young readers. A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men ...

Charity Just Like Us surveyed more than 31,000 pupils across the UK, including 4,307 primary school children aged nine to 11. The vast majority - 78 per cent - of the primary school children said ...

The number of children missing at least half their time at school is 160% higher than before the COVID pandemic, new data shows. A total of 157,038 children were severely absent from schools in ...