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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.

Gardeners and carpenters: the 鈥榮kill鈥 of parenting

08 Nov 2018

Wanting your child to have the best chance in life is natural for any parent. But by focusing too much on the 鈥榮kill鈥 of parenting, are we losing...

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Children of the city: tackling violence in the 21st century

06 Nov 2018

Up to one billion children worldwide are estimated to be victims of violence. Now, an intended study of 12,000 children in eight cities worldwide...

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Releasing the imagination: the 探花直播 of Cambridge Primary School

02 Nov 2018

More than just an outstanding Ofsted rating sets the 探花直播 of Cambridge Primary School apart: it places research at its heart, informing...

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Spotlight on children

01 Nov 2018

Welcome to our new 鈥 Spotlight on children 鈥, a focus on research taking place at the 探花直播 of Cambridge relating to children and childhood 鈥...

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Joseph Priestley: theologian, scientist, clergyman and stammerer

Study unearths Britain鈥檚 first speech therapists

22 Oct 2018

On International Stammering Awareness Day (22 October), a new study reveals that Britain鈥檚 first speech therapists emerged at least a century earlier...

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A room in a young offenders institute

History shows abuse of children in custody will remain an 鈥榠nherent risk鈥 鈥 report

18 Oct 2018

New research conducted for the current independent inquiry suggests that 鈥 despite recent policy improvements 鈥 cultures of child abuse are liable to...

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Mental health disorders: risks and resilience in adolescence

10 Oct 2018

Deeper understanding of the wiring and rewiring of the adolescent brain is helping scientists pinpoint why young people are especially vulnerable to...

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In His Own World

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome more likely to have a child with autism

01 Aug 2018

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are more likely than other women to have an autistic child, according to an analysis of NHS data carried...

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Workhouse Women in St. Giles's Church by Charles Holroyd (1880-84). 漏Trustees of the British Museum

Historian uncovers new evidence of 18th century London's 'Child Support Agency'

26 Jul 2018

How 18th and 19th century London supported its unmarried mothers and illegitimate children 鈥 essentially establishing an earlier version of today鈥檚...

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Mother鈥檚 attitude towards baby during pregnancy may have implications for child鈥檚 development

12 Jun 2018

Mothers who 鈥榗onnect鈥 with their baby during pregnancy are more likely to interact in a more positive way with their infant after it is born...

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Early childhood mortality rates in 1851 (left) and 1911 (right).  探花直播highest rates are in red and the lowest in blue.

Online atlas explores north-south divide in childbirth and child mortality during Victorian era

15 May 2018

A new interactive online atlas, which illustrates when, where and possibly how fertility rates began to fall in England and Wales during the...

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鈥淟ittle robots鈥: behind the scenes at an academy school

11 Apr 2018

New research from the Faculty of Education lifts the lid on an influential academy school, and finds an authoritarian system that reproduces race and...

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